[I guess R-devel is more appropriate for this question:] Will CRAN maintainers accept binary packages (in addition to source) from the package maintainers? As an example, I develop and test randomForest on both Linux and WinNT, so I can always make the binary. This could make life a bit easier for BDR and DM. Are there any potential problems? Regards, Andy> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:49 AM > To: Bernardo Rangel Tura > Cc: cran@R-project.org; R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Update packages > > > >>>>> "Bernardo" == Bernardo Rangel Tura <tura@centroin.com.br> > >>>>> on Tue, 01 Oct 2002 06:19:37 -0300 writes: > > Bernardo> I have been having problems with > Bernardo> the update of my R. Some packages (ipred, > Bernardo> randomForest, gregmisc, Hmisc and Design) that it > Bernardo> has new versions are not available in CRAN through > Bernardo> the command: update.packages (). Will it be that > Bernardo> my product has a defect? I use R in win98SE with > Bernardo> 128 Mb de RAM and AMD 1.2Ghz > > Hmisc and Design have been announced by Frank Harrell as not yet > to be available on CRAN because they don't pass "R CMD check" (without > many warnings). > The other 3 packages are on CRAN. Note however, that for Windows, > new *binary* versions must be made available (by Prof. Brian Ripley or > Duncan Murdoch mainly I think) and there, the newest packages > are dated Sept.1 (look manually for the needed zip files in > http://cran.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/ ). > I'm not entirely sure how the CRAN maintainers populate that > directory, though. > > Regards, > Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. ============================================================================= -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at
2002-Oct-01 12:18 UTC
uploading binary packages (was RE: [R] Update packages)
>>>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:04:40 -0400, >>>>> Liaw, Andy (LA) wrote:> [I guess R-devel is more appropriate for this question:] > Will CRAN maintainers accept binary packages (in addition to source) from > the package maintainers? As an example, I develop and test randomForest on > both Linux and WinNT, so I can always make the binary. This could make life > a bit easier for BDR and DM. Are there any potential problems? Yes, especially on Windows there is the danger of viruses. We (=the CRAN master admins) cannot check for viruses because we have almost no windows machines. And even if we had, we could not make any guarantees. So the current policy is to have one or two maintainers for each binary distribution of R and let them handle the rest. This ensures that each binary distribution has been compiled using identical tools and binaries are exchanged only in one direction (which makes it harder for viruses to spread). Allowing for binary uploads opens a can of worms I'd rather not like to open. Of course I'm no windows user, so have no strong preferences with respect to binaries for that particular platform. Best, Fritz -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._