Hi All,
I am researching the criteria for submitting packages on the R website and
using Hadley's packages book as a general guide. The CRAN policy is that a
package cannot write files. My question is as follows:
Does this apply when the package is installed only? I ask because my package
valgrind reports no errors
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles Geyer
> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> * run the file that causes the crash with R CMD check by itself,
>> it works, no crash
>> * run R CMD check --use-valgrind rcdd, it w
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Charles Geyer wrote:
[...]
> * run the file that causes the crash with R CMD check by itself,
> it works, no crash
> * run R CMD check --use-valgrind rcdd, it works, no crash
> * run R CMD check --use-gct rcdd, it works no crash
> * use tools::chec
I am trying to update a CRAN package (rcdd) for the R-3.3.0 requirements.
And I think I have done it. But
When I do
R CMD check rcdd
one of the tests crashes (it says it caught a segfault). I am on an i686
box running Ubuntu 14.04 and the R is the one that comes from
http://cran.us.r-
On 3 July 2015 at 10:24, Paul Gilbert wrote:
| The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
| list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
| dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
| example, it would add a system depe
My downloader package was created to deal with https on various platforms:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/downloader/index.html
The package dates back to before R had libcurl support. It's very
simple: if you're on Windows, it uses setInternet2(), which enable
https support, and if you'r
The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
example, it would add a system dependency on libcurl and an R package
dependency on curl
In random, I do the following, using R 3.2.0 or later with libcurl where
installed, and Jeroen's lightweight curl::curl otherwise.
getConnection <- function(urltxt, ...) {
if (getRversion() >= "3.2.0" && capabilities()["libcurl"]) {
url(urltxt, ..., method="libcurl")
} else {
