[R-pkg-devel] Trying to submit a package

thanks.  As I said,  it was my bad.  I mistakenly thought CRAN submissions resumed today.  I will re-submit tomorrow.

-Roy

On Jan 6, 2026, at 3:29?PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

are you using devtools::submit_cran() to submit your package to CRAN?
I've seen a few developers posting about CRAN submission issues on
social media platforms too. My best guess is that each of them are
using devtools::submit_cran(), because submissions via the official
page <https://cran.r-project.org/submit.html> is still down;

"CRAN submissions will be offline from Dec 23, 2025 to Jan 07, 2026
-CRAN team vacation and maintenance work)

During this time, the submission of packages is not possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience."

Since these questions about CRAN downtimes keep popping up now and
then, would it make sense to have a standard "scheduled_maintenance"
file somewhere that can be parsed? Then devtools::submit_cran() could
look at that before attempting a submission. Even without that, I
guess devtools::submit_cran() could check the source for
https://xmpalantir.wu.ac.at/cransubmit/ to see that there are no input
fields in the HTML <form> tag.

My $.02

/Henrik

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 3:11?PM Georgi Boshnakov
<georgi.boshnakov at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

First,  wait for the CRAN submissions to reopen (tomorrow I think).

Having said the above, I often get in trouble if I try to follow the cran link from my phone. Just click it again and repeat the process - cran will report that you have already submitted successfully, if your previous attrmpt was good. Also,
note that after a successful submission you immediately get a confirmation email. So its absence suggests that you have not confirmed your submission successfully.

All of the above is automatic, noreal burden on the cran team, to my understanding.

Georgi Boshnakov

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