hadley wickham wrote: > 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.
At least for Windows it is there: http://129.217.207.166 Uwe Ligges > Hadley > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
