On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:22 PM, hadley wickham wrote: > On 4/6/07, Stefan Theussl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hadley wickham wrote: >>>>> I have recently found RForge.net (http://www.rforge.net/) by Simon >>>>> Urbanek and found out today that the site is accepting >>>>> subscriptions. >>>>> Great! However, browsing a bit on the site I found a link to >>>>> another >>>>> forge: R-Forge (http://r-forge.r-project.org/). >>>>> >>>>> Is/will the last one be the "offcial" forge for R packages, >>>>> given that >>>>> it has domain r-project.org? >>>> >>>> Yes, we're currently still testing the functionality and >>>> improving the >>>> documentation, but an article for R News that announces the >>>> functionality >>>> is under preparation. There is already a user's manual available >>>> on the >>>> main page which explains how you can register and set up your >>>> project >>>> etc. >>>> Just as Simon's site this already offers an SVN and nightly >>>> builds in a >>>> CRAN-style repository, and additionally there is the whole >>>> GForge system >>>> with other features such as project forums, mailing lists etc. >>> >>> Is it possible to use r-forge just for the nightly builds? (ie. >>> with >>> svn hosted elsewhere) That would be really handy. >>> >>> Hadley >> We have never thought about it, but this would be technically >> difficult. >> >> But you may migrate your svn (or the part which contains the >> package) to >> R-Forge and have the advantage of daily build and checked packages >> with >> the possibility to install it directly from R-Forge: >> |install.packages("/packagename/",repos="http://r-forge.r- >> project.org")| > > I guess I'm not really comfortable moving my code to an external > repository completely out of my control. It would be really > convenient to be able to upload a source package, and have it built, > with out R CMD check being enforced. >
I see the whole point of using external repository (like either rforge) in having fully-backed SVN repository on server-grade hardware. If you already have a SVN repository, why won't you use a post-commit script on the same machine to do the build and check? Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
