Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN policy on binary submission

2018-01-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 09.01.2018 03:25, Hugh Parsonage wrote: On https://cran.r-project.org/ , it says Note that we generally do not accept submissions of precompiled binaries due to security reasons I note it says 'generally', not 'always'. Are there any packages on CRAN which were submitted as precompiled

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN policy on binary submission

2018-01-08 Thread Mark van der Loo
Dear Hugh, this question was asked earlier on this list: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/executable-files-R-package-td4390488.html See especially the answer of Duncan Murdoch. Best, Mark Op di 9 jan. 2018 om 03:26 schreef Hugh Parsonage : > On https://cran.r-project.org/ , it says > > > Note that

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN policy on binary submission

2018-01-08 Thread Hugh Parsonage
On https://cran.r-project.org/ , it says > Note that we generally do not accept submissions of precompiled binaries due > to security reasons I note it says 'generally', not 'always'. Are there any packages on CRAN which were submitted as precompiled binaries? Under what circumstances would CRAN