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Julia Silge
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Hello there! I maintain the tidytext package:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_tidytext.html

Recently I have been working to get tidytext to build on R-oldrel, and I
believe that v0.1.7 should do so. The check page above shows that v0.1.6 is
what is being checked for OSX on R-oldrel, though. (I do not expect v0.1.6
to pass on R-oldrel.)

Does anyone know why the most recent version isn't being tested?

Thanks,
Julia
Peter Langfelder
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I may be wrong on this but I thought a new package submission to CRAN
will only be available to current R version. Packages for older R
versions are not updated.

Peter
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Julia Silge <julia.silge at gmail.com> wrote:
Julia Silge
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Well, v0.1.6 is quite a recent release as well (from January) so I'm not
sure that is the explanation. Also, the newest version is being checked on
Windows for R-oldrel? My question here is why R-oldrel OSX is checking
v0.1.6 and R-oldrel Windows is checking v0.1.7.

I was directly asked by CRAN maintainers to fix and resubmit my package so
it would pass on R-oldrel. This doesn't make sense to me if CRAN doesn't
check new versions.

Thanks,
Julia

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:25 PM Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com>
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      Brian Ripley
    

    

      
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On 12/03/2018 23:01, Julia Silge wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
My understanding is that packages for r-oldrel-osx-x86_64 will not be 
updated as the build machine has died.  Simon Urbanek has asked CRAN to 
remove those results, and doing so is in progress.

If you look at

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/r-oldrel/?C=M;O=D

you will see the last package built was on 2018-01-11 .

In any case, package support for R-oldrel (3.3.x) officially finishes 
once the following series (3.4.x) is signed off, which is on Thursday 
this week.

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Peter Dalgaard
    

    

      
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Or at the very least at 3.5.0 alpha, which happens a couple of weeks further down the line (schedule pending). 

-pd

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Julia Silge
    

    

      
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Thanks for the clarification, all!

        
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:57 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    
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      Simon Urbanek
    

    

      
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Yes, indeed, since R-oldrel has not been released for the current El Capitan build, there are no such binaries. The previous Mavericks build is no longer supported due the OS no longer being maintained by Apple (last security update was close to 2 years ago) and the build machine having died. Hence the only releases that can be supported are 3.4.0 onwards as El Capitan builds. We are currently supporting package build for the 3.4 and 3.5 branches and will continue in the foreseeable future.

Cheers,
Simon