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[R-pkg-devel] Time for CRAN response

10 messages · Tiago Olivoto, Uwe Ligges, Duncan Murdoch +2 more

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Dear all,

I've submitted my package 'metan' to CRAN for the first time a few weeks ago
and received some suggestions to improve the code. After fixing some bugs,
I've resubmitted it on November 25, but I still don't have any response and
the package was not found in incoming/ dir on CRAN cran ftp site. Since it
is my first experience, I would like to have an idea about how long the CRAN
team usually decides about a package submission.

Best,

Tiago Olivoto
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On 15/12/2019 1:29 p.m., Tiago Olivoto wrote:
If it is not in incoming/, something went wrong.  The most common thing 
to go wrong is that the maintainer didn't respond to the confirmation 
message. That message looks like this for a resubmission.  I assume 
first time submissions have a similar message:
When you confirm submission, you'll get another message that looks like 
this:
> ...

After that, it goes into a queue for checking, and usually within a few 
days you'll be told about problems with it or it will be accepted to 
CRAN.  (Sometimes you'll be told very quickly, if the automated checks 
find a problem.)

Duncan Murdoch
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Thank you for the response.
As far I remember, I've responded that message by following the link and selecting "I have read the CRAN policies and would like to submit this package to CRAN" and " I have checked the submission using R CMD check --as-cran and a current version of r-devel, as mandated by the CRAN Repository Policy. (You could do so using the win-builder service at https://win-builder.r-project.org)", and then clicking on "upload package to CRAN"
These same steps were followed in the first submission, but at that time I received the following message that was not received in the last submission.
Should I try to re-submit it again?
Best,
Tiago Olivoto


-----Mensagem original-----
De: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> 
Enviada em: domingo, 15 de dezembro de 2019 17:35
Para: tiagoolivoto at gmail.com; r-package-devel at r-project.org
Assunto: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Time for CRAN response
On 15/12/2019 1:29 p.m., Tiago Olivoto wrote:
If it is not in incoming/, something went wrong.  The most common thing to go wrong is that the maintainer didn't respond to the confirmation message. That message looks like this for a resubmission.  I assume first time submissions have a similar message:
When you confirm submission, you'll get another message that looks like
this:
> ...

After that, it goes into a queue for checking, and usually within a few days you'll be told about problems with it or it will be accepted to CRAN.  (Sometimes you'll be told very quickly, if the automated checks find a problem.)

Duncan Murdoch
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On 15/12/2019 4:57 p.m., Tiago Olivoto wrote:
Probably.  I'd wait 24 hours, to see if someone from CRAN replies with 
more information.

Duncan Murdoch
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On 15.12.2019 23:39, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Thanks, Duncan, here we got:

1. I did not spot a request for help from Nov 25 in the many messsages 
we receive. That one has now been answered.
2. I do not see a submission fom Nov 25. Can you simply resubmit and 
make sure you click on the confirmation link?

Best,
Uwe Ligges
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Thanks, Duncan and Uwe, for the answers!
I'll resubmit it as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Tiago Olivoto

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-----Mensagem original-----
De: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
Enviada em: domingo, 15 de dezembro de 2019 22:27
Para: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>; tiagoolivoto at gmail.com; r-package-devel at r-project.org
Assunto: Re: [R-pkg-devel] RES: Time for CRAN response
On 15.12.2019 23:39, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Thanks, Duncan, here we got:

1. I did not spot a request for help from Nov 25 in the many messsages we receive. That one has now been answered.
2. I do not see a submission fom Nov 25. Can you simply resubmit and make sure you click on the confirmation link?

Best,
Uwe Ligges
2 days later
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Dear List,

Today I submitted a package to CRAN, and after correcting some NOTEs,
I got the following automatic message:

"package mypackage_0.1-2.tar.gz has been auto-processed and is pending
a manual inspection of this new CRAN submission. A CRAN team member
will typically respond to you within the next 10 working days. For
technical reasons you may receive a second copy of this message when a
team member triggers a new check."


Could somebody give a short explanation about what type of checkings
are made in this "manual inspection" ?

Thak in advance for your help,

Mauricio



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On 18/12/2019 5:01 p.m., Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini wrote:
Basically they're checking whether you are following the guidelines at 
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html.  Not all of those 
things can be checked automatically, and many people claim to be 
following them when they actually are not.

Duncan Murdoch
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Thank you very much Duncan for the information.

BTW, it is incredible to me how the quality control of packages
submitted to CRAN  has improved in the last decade. Now the automatic
procedures are able to identify even "little" things (e.g., broken
links, misspelled words, size of vignettes, etc).

Thank you very much for all the effort and dedication of the CRAN
Repository Maintainers.

Kind regards,

Mauricio

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It is the courage to continue that counts.
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 19:50, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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Mauricio,

I appreciate the manual inspection.

I am waiting for the second time on a manual inspection. The first inspection found a fairly severe error of mine where I was writting out an error file to the user?s home directory space. It was code I had written over two years ago and long before I considered submission to CRAN. The code is only exercised with an specific data error when manually exercising the API of the Shiny application included in the package.

I was certainly embarrashed by my error but I am more grateful for the work of Kurt Hornik and Uwe Ligges who found the mistake.

Mark
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