[R-pkg-devel] CRAN pending status , left up in the air

Mon, Oct 19, 2020 8:34 AM

Thank you  Dirk and Hugo for your responses. I guess I'll just have to be
patient and wait.

I can only imagine how the CRAN team is overwhelmed by the exponential
growth of package submissions. I wonder, though, whether the CRAN
maintainers and the R community more broadly are thinking about
alternatives to deal with such growing demand without compromising the
speed and consistency/quality of package development. Expanding the team of
CRAN maintainers would be the most obvious solution but I confess I'm not
familiar enough with the whole process to assess what would be the best
routes of action to tackle this bottleneck.

best

Rafael H M Pereira

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:46 AM Hugo Gruson <hugo.gruson+R at normalesup.org>
wrote:

Hi all,

this is a bit tricky since the documentation on the dashboard comes from
an official, authoritative, source: the R journal [1].

"pending: if a decision is pending a response from the package
maintainer: If an additional issue was present in the package that we
cannot check for in the incoming checks (such as the BLAS issues
mentioned in the section above), the maintainer is automatically asked
whether these issues have been fixed. Same is true for change of
maintainer (or maintainer's mail address) where the old maintainer (old
address) is automatically asked to confirm the maintainer change. The
answers have to be processed manually."

As Dirk explains and as reported in
https://github.com/lockedata/cransays/issues/29, it is likely not true
anymore but in the absence of further official information, it is
difficult to issue a fix.

A later issue of the R journal [2] introduces the "waiting" and
"newbies" categories but does not expand on the new role of "pending".

Best,

Hugo

[1]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2018-1/cran.pdf
[2]: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2019-1/cran.pdf

On 19/10/2020 02:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

On 18 October 2020 at 20:56, Rafael H. M. Pereira wrote:
| The CRAN incoming Dashboard indicates that the status of my package

(r5r)

| is "pending", which means 'the CRAN maintainers are waiting for an

action

| on your side. You should check your emails!'.

AFAICT the text there is wrong: it corresponds to state 'waiting' as
'pending' means CRAN is pondering the state of the package.

Your package has only been there for three (mostly weekend) days which is
nothing. I have one 'waiting' for five days now and it is simply

(AFAICT) a

false positive. Plus, it had already been delayed by a spurious

compilation

error on their end before that so the total is well over a week now. Very
frustrating.  But there is exactly zero you or I can do about it.

| However, I haven't received any email with guidance on how to proceed.

Is

| there any CRAN webpage to check the latest check results and get a

sense of

| what I should be doing?

No.

I can only suggest to trust official documentation (Writing R Extensions,
CRAN Repository Policy) more. Asking here is also better than guessing.

Dirk

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