And nowadays there's also R-hub [1], rocker containers [2] for local testing (which, combined with distrobox [3], is very convenient), and of course r-actions on GitHub [4] for CI testing.
Iñaki [1] https://r-hub.github.io/rhub/ [2] https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker [3] https://fedoramagazine.org/run-distrobox-on-fedora-linux/ [4] https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2-branch/examples On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 16:02, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > FWIW, a good solution to check packages on the latest R version (in > particular the development version) is to upload them to Winbuilder: > https://win-builder.r-project.org/ > > (I even seem to remember that CRAN recommends this.) > > > Best > > > Le vendredi 07 janvier 2022 à 12:16 +0000, José Abílio Matos a écrit : > > On Friday, 7 January 2022 07.30.22 WET Jim Lemon wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > As I maintain a few packages on CRAN, The Rules say I should build > > > them with an up to the minute version of R. Whenever I have > > > installed > > > R from a repo, it always seems to be a few versions behind. I'll > > > let > > > you know how it goes. Thanks. > > > > > > Jim > > > > Please take what follows as genuine curiosity, because it is. :-) > > > > Your remark seems strange because in general Tom rebuilds R in one or > > two > > weeks after it is released, at least for point releases. > > > > The issue sometimes happens when a new release happens where in some > > cases the > > only viable option is to rebuild all the R packages. In that case we > > need to > > come with a way to automatically rebuild the packages (because order > > matters > > here). > > > > Is this the problem that you are seeing? > > > > Another worthwhile mentioning project is: > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/cran/ > > > > Best regards, > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
