I don’t think there is any specific requirement for automated tests on CRAN; there is also no requirement on CRAN to have a windows version. The current https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ssh.utils/index.html package certainly does not. That being said, I’m always a fan of inclusion, and would love to see some R utilities on windows for ssh.
The official CRAN policy is: Package authors should make all reasonable efforts to provide cross-platform portable code. Packages will not normally be accepted that do not run on at least two of the major R platforms. Cases for Windows-only packages will be considered, but CRAN may not be the most appropriate place to host them. I would also agree that getting Jeroen’s package up and running would be great, but is admittedly a much steeper hill to climb. Cheers, Jonathan > On Sep 16, 2016, at 6:25 PM, Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is> wrote: > > I'm not sure where Jeroen is on this - https://github.com/jeroenooms/ssh - > but it might make more sense to dovetail off of it than rely on binaries > being available on systems. That's doable, but (IMO) fraught with peril. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:53 PM, William May <williamc...@live.com> wrote: > >> I wrote an SSH tunneling package (it's on Github here< >> https://github.com/wmay/tunnelr>). It runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows, at >> least in the environments I've been able to test. I would like to get it on >> CRAN if it's possible, but writing automated tests for this package is >> nightmarish. >> >> Typically, connecting to a server through the package requires manually >> entering a password, which I don't think I can automate. (I don't want to >> allow the package to enter passwords itself for security reasons.) An >> alternative is to set up public and private rsa keys so that no password is >> required. That option also gets complicated. >> >> I could imagine setting up a server solely for testing this, with a user >> that has no password, though that sounds scary. But then what happens if >> the server goes down? >> >> A second challenge applies specifically to Windows, which is the platform >> I'm most concerned about. I'm relying on PuTTY for SSH in Windows. Is there >> a way for that to be tested on CRAN? >> >> Should I even worry about CRAN testing for this? Will CRAN accept this >> package without tests? >> >> And I was surprised that an SSH tunneling package didn't already exist (I >> found it really convenient to control SSH tunneling from within R). Is >> there another reason it doesn't exist yet, or is it just the testing >> challenges? >> >> - Will >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > > [[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
