[R-pkg-devel] Advice on resubmitting when no response from CRAN

Thanks for the reply, Ben.

The SystemRequirements is "Cargo (>= 1.56) for installation from source:
see INSTALL file".  The INSTALL notes that the package contains Rust source
code compiled by Cargo (the Rust package manager) which can be obtained
from the Rust project at https://rustup.rs.  On Windows, this involves
downloading an executable and following the onscreen instructions.

In my follow-up email, I wrote, "Alternatively, if you prefer, could these
packages please download
binary libraries produced by Cargo in accordance with the CRAN policy:
'Only as a last resort and with the agreement of the CRAN team should a
package download pre-compiled software.'"

So you suggest I politely nudge instead of resubmitting?  I don't think
that CRAN even has a copy of my submission anymore.  (It was here
https://cran.r-project.org/incoming/archive/ for several weeks, but is now
gone.)

Thanks!

-- David


On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:47 AM Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:

     One question and one suggestion.

     Is the software required/indicated by the SystemRequirements field
unusual/possibly burdensome to install across platforms? That wouldn't
justify not responding to your e-mails, but it might explain why the
package didn't make it onto CRAN.

    For some context, can you tell us what the system
requirement/alternative is?

    The suggestion would be to politely nudge again.

On 9/14/22 11:24 AM, David B. Dahl wrote:

Hi colleagues.  I am hoping to get some advice from you on how to get
a package "unstuck" at CRAN without antagonizing the busy CRAN
maintainers.

I submitted to CRAN an update to one of my packages on August 5.  The
submission passed the automatic tests on Debian, but not Windows.  The
automated response said, "If you are fairly certain the rejection is a
false positive, please reply-all to this message and explain."  I
replied-all and noted that the failure should be resolved by please
installing software as described in the SystemRequirements field and
the referenced INSTALL file.  After three weeks of not hearing back, I
sent a polite nudge (again via reply-all) on August 26 and suggested
an alternative if my original solution was not feasible.  I still have
not heard back and notice that now my package source is no longer on
https://cran.r-project.org/incoming/archive/.

How would you recommend that I proceed in a professional fashion?

Thanks!

-- David B. Dahl

--
Dr. Benjamin Bolker
Professor, Mathematics & Statistics and Biology, McMaster University
Director, School of Computational Science and Engineering
Graduate chair, Mathematics & Statistics

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