On 4/6/07, Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
The svn server is the easy bit - you can get that at any number of hosts. Cross-platform R builds are much trickier, and is the unique thing that the r-forge sites offer. If I could have some one else deal with the package building for linux, mac and windows for test packages I would be a very happy man. Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
