reliability of R-Forge? (moving to r-Devel)
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
?Hello:
? ? ?Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge? ?Please see thread below.
? ? ?Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of "fda" to
CRAN. ?We committed changes for it last Friday. ?I'd like to see reports of
their "daily checks", then submit to CRAN from R-Forge. ?Unfortunately, it
seems to be down now, saying "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database:". ?I
just tried, 'install.packages("fda", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")',
and got the previous version, which indicates that my changes from last
Friday have not been built yet. ?Also, a few days ago, I got an error from
'install.packages("pfda", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")' (a
different package, 'pfda' NOT 'fda'). ?I don't remember the error message,
but this same command worked for me just now.
? ? ?I infer from this that I should consider submitting the latest version
of 'fda' to CRAN manually, not waiting for the R-Forge [formerly] "daily"
builds and checks.
? ? ?R-Forge is an incredibly valuable resource. ?It would be even more
valuable if it were more reliable. ?I very much appreciate the work of the
volunteers who maintain it; ?I am unfortunately not in a position to
volunteer to do more for the R-Project generally and R-Forge in particular
than I already do.
I haven't tried it but I understand from the r-forge manual that it now supports foreign subversion repositories. One could host software on googlecode or other free subversion repository and still have it available through r-forge. That way you could access the software even if r-forge were down. If anyone gets this to work and can post detailed instructions it would be helpful.
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