Message-ID: <41400872.8020202@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2004-09-09T09:37:05Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: Run up to R 2.0.0 for package maintainers
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409070849490.8420-100000@gannet.stats>
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The major changes for R 2.0.0 are now in place, and we have provided a set
> of notes for package maintainers at
>
> http://developer.r-project.org/200update.txt
>
> on both changes needed and new opportunities.
>
> The main thing which needs to be done is to revise the DESCRIPTION file,
> in particular to ensure the Depends: field is accurate.
>
> We do run daily checks over all the CRAN packages. See
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html
>
> (Unfortunately although the checks have been run last week, the summary
> has not been updated since Aug 29.)
>
Additionally, package maintainers might want to look at the checks under
Windows:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html
Uwe Ligges