Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504130646480.25891@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-13T05:53:13Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: package submission and binary versions
In-Reply-To: <534f9253249e.53249e534f92@gsb.uchicago.edu>
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Peter E. Rossi wrote:
>> From reading the CRAN web page, it appears that you should not submit
> precompiled binary versions of your package, but rather that these
> are built for you by someone working with CRAN. I submitted my
> package using R CMD build but without the binary flag on. I'd like
> to have a binary version available for Windows users. Should I submit
> a precompiled binary version as well?
No, as it said. If your package passes its tests on those platforms,
binary versions for Windows and MacOS X appear automatically (thanks to
Uwe Ligges and Stefano Iacus). They even get updated for new R versions
(and R 2.1.0 is imminent) when otherwise new submissions would be needed.
(You could have asked CRAN at r-project.org about CRAN questions rather than
the world.)
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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