CRAN policies
An associated problem, for the wish list, is that it would be nice for package developers to have a way to automatically distinguish between NOTEs that can usually be ignored (e.g. a package suggests a package that is not available for cross reference checks - I have several case where the suggested package depends on the package being built, so this NOTE occurs all the time), and NOTEs that are really pre-WARNINGS, so that one can flag these and spend time fixing them before they become a WARNING or ERROR. Perhaps two different kinds of notes? (And, BTW, having been responsible for a certain amount of the >[*] Since answering several emails a day about why their >results were different was taking up far too much time. I think --as-cran is great.) Paul
On 12-03-27 02:19 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 27.03.2012 19:10, Jeffrey Ryan wrote:
Is there a distinction as to NOTE vs. WARNING that is documented? I've always assumed (wrongly?) that NOTES weren't an issue with publishing on CRAN, but that they may change to WARNINGS at some point.
We won't kick packages off CRAN for Notes (but we will if Warnings are not fixed), but we may not accept new submissions with significant Notes. Best, Uwe Ligges
Is the process by which this happens documented somewhere? Jeff On 3/27/12 11:09 AM, "Gabor Grothendieck"<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
2012/3/27 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
On 27.03.2012 17:09, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
CRAN has for some time had a policies page at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html and we would like to draw this to the attention of package maintainers. In particular, please - always send a submission email to CRAN at r-project.org with the package name and version on the subject line. Emails sent to individual members of the team will result in delays at best. - run R CMD check --as-cran on the tarball before you submit it. Do this with the latest version of R possible: definitely R 2.14.2, preferably R 2.15.0 RC or a recent R-devel. (Later versions of R are able to give better diagnostics, e.g. for compiled code and especially on Windows. They may also have extra checks for recently uncovered problems.) Also, please note that CRAN has a very heavy workload (186 packages were published last week) and to remain viable needs package maintainers to make its life as easy as possible.
Regarding the part about "warnings or significant notes" in that page, its impossible to know which notes are significant and which ones are not significant except by trial and error.
Right, it needs human inspection to identify false positives. We believe most package maintainers are able to see if he or she is hit by such a false positive.
The problem is that a note is generated and the note is correct. Its not a false positive. But that does not tell you whether its "significant" or not. There is no way to know. One can either try to remove all notes (which may not be feasible) or just upload it and by trial and error find out if its accepted or not. -- Statistics& Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com
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