Re: [R-pkg-devel] Ensuring permanence and SHA consistency of released CRAN packages for validated software

2022-03-21 Thread Borini, Stefano
CRAN rebuilds binary packages because of (potential) changes in build-time dependencies. ABI changes, in the loose sense of the term. E.g. package A can call the shared library of another package B. If the ABI of B changes, then you need to rebuild A. AFAICT packages are rebuilt frequently and oft

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Ensuring permanence and SHA consistency of released CRAN packages for validated software

2022-03-17 Thread Borini, Stefano
something and you want to retest the whole lot against it. -- Stefano Borini Principal Analytical Tools Developer AstraZeneca R&D BioPharmaceuticals | Data Science & AI | Early Biometrics & Statistical Innovation From: Iñaki Ucar Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022 at 10:16 To: "Bor

[R-pkg-devel] Ensuring permanence and SHA consistency of released CRAN packages for validated software

2022-03-16 Thread Borini, Stefano
Hello, Validated software needs to ensure consistency and reproducibility of its environment, potentially in years' time, when the audit comes. For this reason, we identify all SHA of the packages we download from CRAN to ensure that the package has not changed after the fact, something that ma

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unable to reproduce reported problems. Docker image?

2020-01-31 Thread Borini, Stefano
nto the problem being flagged by the builder, and the reason why you are not able to reproduce it. Martin Morgan On 1/31/20, 9:04 AM, "R-package-devel on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel" wrote: On 31 January 2020 at 09:11, Borini, Stefano wrote: | Thanks. What is th

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unable to reproduce reported problems. Docker image?

2020-01-31 Thread Borini, Stefano
Thanks. What is the recommended strategy in this case? Keep submitting and patching until it passes? On 30/01/2020, 22:48, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" wrote: On 30 January 2020 at 21:40, Borini, Stefano wrote: | I am currently trying to submit a package to CRAN, and I see no pr

[R-pkg-devel] Unable to reproduce reported problems. Docker image?

2020-01-30 Thread Borini, Stefano
I am currently trying to submit a package to CRAN, and I see no problems in running the test on my package on Linux ubuntu 18.04 and the latest compiled R. Is there a docker image of the CRAN automatic build system so that one can try to reproduce the problem in house? Thanks _