Dear 'code M', We all participate here with 'vizors up' and clear view of each other's identities. Please consider doing the same.
On 3 February 2016 at 09:37, code M wrote: | hi, i am sorry if this has been asked already, | but i could not find an answer. | | in short: am i allowed to download, compile and | execute (github) packages while testing? On you own machine: sure, do whatever. On CRAN: I do not know, and I don't get to set the rules but at a minimum there are time limits for tests. | reason for this: the package i develop is a simple | 'bridge', the goal is to allow users to easily access | (commonly used or their own) machine learning | binaries (like LIBSVM). obviously i will not add any That is an odd example as LIBSVM has been packaged for R for years if not decades -- eg starting the with common package 'e1071', see JSS Vol 15 Issue 9 in 2006 for a paper by the authors. | kind of binary to the package itself, but on the other | hand i cannot test the functionality of the package | without having a binary. therefore it seems most | reasonable to compile the binary while testing and | delete it afterwards. Maybe you can mock the tests otherwise? Or just depend on e1071 for testing? | are there any objections to this procedure? "Maybe". In general, "it is complicated" and "it depends". Christoph Sax and I just created and released a package acting as an installer for binaries off GitHub but I don't think you one generalize this in as unqualified a manner as you suggest here. Dirk | | thanks & all the best, | aydin | | ______________________________________________ | R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
