[R-pkg-devel] Delays in CRAN Windows Binaries?

2020-10-21 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi All, Just thought that I would check to see if there are any known issues/delays for CRAN in creating R release and devel binaries for Windows for updated packages. It has been four days since I submitted an update and the other binaries were created within a couple of days. The two Windows

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Delays in CRAN Windows Binaries?

2020-10-21 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Related to this: It would be neat to have a dashboard that reports on the current latency is on the different CRAN "queues" are, e.g. how long is the average waiting time when submitting a new package ("newbies") until you get a manual reply or it's on CRAN, submitting an update with all OK

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Usage of internet resources in examples

2020-10-21 Thread Andy Teucher
Thanks Martin, I agree that the example should run for a user when calling example() - hence I am going with a simple try() around the function calls in the examples. I agree your more sophisticated version has better behaviour, but I don’t want to clutter the examples with code that might

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Usage of internet resources in examples

2020-10-21 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:07:10 -0400 writes: > On 10/20/20 4:51 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:45 PM Ben Bolker wrote: >> [...] >>> if (testthat::skip_on_cran()) >>> >>> all seem like reasonable solutions. >> >> I