Re: [R-pkg-devel] automated testing for an SSH tunneling package?

2016-09-16 Thread Jonathan Lisic
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] automated testing for an SSH tunneling package?

2016-09-16 Thread Bob Rudis
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 wrote: > I wrote an SSH tunnel

[R-pkg-devel] automated testing for an SSH tunneling package?

2016-09-16 Thread William May
I wrote an SSH tunneling package (it's on Github here). 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. Typica