There has been some disagreement on where it is appropriate to post questions about package checking procedures, including the building of the environment e.g., R-devel under Linux Mint.
In looking at https://www.r-project.org/mail.html, it seems to me that the procedures belong with r-package-devel, but there doesn't seem to be a good home for the consequent need to build R-devel to do this. Have I missed the appropriate list? It seems to me that the volume of queries of this sort, and the success of WinBuilder, suggest we could seriously use similar a Linbuilder and MacBuilder (and possibly others). There's a lot of duplicated effort being wasted on the R-devel side in particular. Is there sufficient interest to - make the effort to emulate Winbuilder for Linux and/or Mac - coordinate the volunteer effort - fund/support the necessary infrastructure (it could be worth a modest contribution to save effort)? For the record, I'm willing to participate. I've managed to set up Linux Mint VirtualBox instances that run R current and R devel for testing, though I find I must do more work than I'd like to maintain things, likely as a result of my own limited skills. JN ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
