Probably I'm too distrustful, but yesterday I tried to use Travis CI and at the end I didn't do it, because of the permissions you're requested to give to the application:
Review permissions: Personal user data : Email addresses (read-only) Repository webhooks and services: Read and write access Commit statuses : Read and write access Deployments : Manage deployments and deployment status Organizations and teams : Read-only access Mauricio ===================================== "When the pupil is ready, the master arrives." (Zen proverb) ===================================== Linux user #454569 -- Linux Mint user On 21 July 2015 at 15:45, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Gavin Simpson <ucfa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Perhaps I have missed some detail, but would Gabor Csardi's r-builder code >> not provide this (or something close to it) for Linux at least? See: >> https://github.com/metacran/r-builder > > It does, although it only does Ubuntu 12.04 if you use Travis, because > that's what Travis has. IMHO this does not really matter for 95% of > the packages, and having R-devel in addition to R-release and R-oldrel > is more important. > >> This builds on the R support for Travis CI, and allows for testing against >> R-release and R-devel (plus R-oldrelease IIRC) > > It actually does not build on R support for Travis CI. Since it needs > its own R installations, it does not make much sense to use the > built-in R support. > >> It's pretty trivial to set-up but you do need your code in a github repo >> (for the Travis deployment - I don't know anything about Semaphore, the >> other option r-builder allows for). > > Yeah, it needs to be on GitHub. > > Gabor > >> G >> >> On 21 July 2015 at 09:04, MAURICIO ZAMBRANO BIGIARINI < >> mauricio.zambr...@ufrontera.cl> wrote: >> >>> On 21 July 2015 at 11:46, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On 21/07/2015 9:01 AM, ProfJCNash wrote: >>> >> >>> >> 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. >>> > >>> > That sounds like the sort of project the R Consortium would support. >>> > They are just getting started, but soon they will have a committee set >>> > up to decide on projects, and presumably soon after that will have a >>> > process in place to solicit them. >>> > >>> > Duncan Murdoch >>> >>> In my humble opinion, such a project could be of great utility to >>> several people that is starting to migrate to GNU/Linux, or to people >>> willing to test their packages with the latest development version of >>> R but without all the knowledge to properly set up the environment on >>> their local machines. >>> >>> If I can contribute to a "LinBuilder" (e.g., testing), I would be >>> willing to do it. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> >>> Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, PhD >>> >>> ===================================== >>> Dept. of Civil Engineering >>> Faculty of Engineering and Sciences >>> Universidad de La Frontera >>> PO Box 54-D, Temuco, Chile >>> ===================================== >>> mailto : mauricio.zambr...@ufrontera.cl >>> work-phone : +56 45 259 2812 >>> http://ingenieriacivil.ufro.cl/ >>> ===================================== >>> "When the pupil is ready, the master arrives." >>> (Zen proverb) >>> ===================================== >>> Linux user #454569 -- Linux Mint user >>> >>> > >>> > ______________________________________________ >>> > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gavin Simpson, PhD >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
