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[R-pkg-devel] Delays in CRAN Windows Binaries?

6 messages · Henrik Bengtsson, Tim Taylor, Marc Schwartz +1 more

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Hi All,

Just thought that I would check to see if there are any known issues/delays for CRAN in creating R release and devel binaries for Windows for updated packages.

It has been four days since I submitted an update and the other binaries were created within a couple of days. The two Windows binaries are the only outstanding updates pending.

Thanks!

Marc Schwartz
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Related to this:

It would be neat to have a dashboard that reports on the current
latency is on the different CRAN "queues" are, e.g. how long is the
average waiting time when submitting a new package ("newbies") until
you get a manual reply or it's on CRAN, submitting an update with all
OK before it hits CRAN, waiting time for building Windows or macOS
binaries, etc.  Some, but not all, of this information can already be
guestimated from the info on ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming/, on
easier on https://lockedata.github.io/cransays/articles/dashboard.html.
I think this could be a great contributor project - it doesn't have to
be hosted by CRAN.

/Henrik
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:08 AM Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
1 day later
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I've made an example at https://github.com/tjtnew/newbies that uses
GitHub actions to monitor how many hours a package has been in the
"newbies" queue.  It updates hourly and saves to a csv in the repo.
It's not something I have time to develop more but if someone wants to
pick it up and take it further please do. Disclaimer - hacked together
quite quickly so code could well be a little iffy.
Best
Tim


On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:47, Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi All,

Just a quick note to indicate that one of the two Windows binaries for the package appeared overnight (EDT). Not sure if this experience is representative for others, or just a temporary bump in the road.

Regards,

Marc
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Windows binaries may be delayed these days, but they are generated in a 
bunch R-flavour-wise. They typical delay after a source package 
publication should be less then 72 hours ideally.

Best,
Uwe
On 23.10.2020 14:05, Marc Schwartz wrote:
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Hi Uwe,

Thanks for your reply.

I appreciate all of the efforts by the CRAN team here.

Regards,

Marc