I'm a little surprised by this thread. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and that's been pretty informative in the past : http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html
Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the CRAN policies advise. winbuilder's R-devel seems to be built daily, saving me the time. Since I don't have Windows it kills two birds with one stone. It has caught many problems for me before submitting to CRAN and I can't remember it ever not responding in a reasonable time. http://win-builder.r-project.org/upload.aspx I've suggested before that winbuilder could be the mechanism to submit to CRAN rather than an ftp upload to incoming. Only if winbuilder passed "OK" on R-devel could it then go to a human. But iirc there was a technical difficulty preventing this. Matthew [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
