Re: [R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-package-devel
I cannot/will not to help you do this, but there are people out there who disagree with me who put considerable effort into doing this... the search term you would need in order to find them is "monorepo". But please reconsider... the whole point of putting code into separate packages is to iso

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Achim Zeileis
Kevin, R-Forge is still alive but there are problems with the build queue as you noticed. The problems occurred after R-Forge upgraded to R 4.4.0 - just as there was a switch in the maintenance team at WU Wien. The problem is with the Windows build/check tools which work fine when run manual

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
While you can put multiple packages in one Git repository, I'd suggest that you don't do that. Most packages are in their own repository, and that means that users who want to contribute to your packages are familiar with that setup. If they have to fork 20 packages at once to make a contribu

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Ben Bolker
I don't know about R-forge, but it's perfectly workable to put multiple packages within a single repo, with each package in its own subdirectory. You'll run into some headaches occasionally with (e.g.) CI machinery that assumes that the head of a git repo is also the primary package director

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Brian G. Peterson
Kevin, I can't speak to whether R-Forge is dead, we migrated our projects to github a long time ago. The most straightforward answer for R packages in git repositories is to use separate git projects. we were even able to import the entire SVN history and r-forge issue history to github for each

[R-pkg-devel] Is R-Forge dead?

2024-07-01 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
Hi, I have been maintaining packages in R-Forge for many tears. Last week I sent an email to r-fo...@r-project.org to report problems with the build process. It appears that any changes I have pushed to R-Forge over approximately the last two months have resulted in the package remaining in t