On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > Hello: > > > Can anyone comment on plans for R-Forge? Please see thread below. > > > Ramsay, Hooker and I would like to release a new version of "fda" to > CRAN. We committed changes for it last Friday. I'd like to see reports of > their "daily checks", then submit to CRAN from R-Forge. Unfortunately, it > seems to be down now, saying "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database:". I > just tried, 'install.packages("fda", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")', > and got the previous version, which indicates that my changes from last > Friday have not been built yet. Also, a few days ago, I got an error from > 'install.packages("pfda", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")' (a > different package, 'pfda' NOT 'fda'). I don't remember the error message, > but this same command worked for me just now. > > > I infer from this that I should consider submitting the latest version > of 'fda' to CRAN manually, not waiting for the R-Forge [formerly] "daily" > builds and checks. > > > R-Forge is an incredibly valuable resource. It would be even more > valuable if it were more reliable. I very much appreciate the work of the > volunteers who maintain it; I am unfortunately not in a position to > volunteer to do more for the R-Project generally and R-Forge in particular > than I already do.
I haven't tried it but I understand from the r-forge manual that it now supports foreign subversion repositories. One could host software on googlecode or other free subversion repository and still have it available through r-forge. That way you could access the software even if r-forge were down. If anyone gets this to work and can post detailed instructions it would be helpful. -- GKX Group GKX Associates Inc. 1-877-GKX-GROUP ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel