declaring package dependencies

On 09/15/2013 11:09 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:

I'm a little surprised by this thread.

I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and
that's been pretty informative in the past :
http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html

Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the
CRAN policies advise.

Right, but

"Please _do not_ upload BioConductor packages or CRAN packages."

from the winbuilder page.

G?ran

winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily,
saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with
one stone.  It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN
and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time.
http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx

I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit
to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming.  Only if winbuilder
passed OK on R-devel could it then go to a human.   But iirc there was a
technical difficulty preventing this.

Matthew