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CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network, changes its rules and workflow every so often: see for instance the new encoding setting of one of its check flavors. As a package developer, you’d better keep up with CRAN policies and processes to be able to safely retain your package(s) ... [Read more...]

In a recent post we introduced CRAN checks of packages, and the efforts we make to ensure all CRAN check flavours have a R-hub equivalent platform for you to reproduce errors on and for you to ensure you have fixed the problems. In this post, we’ll explain the context ... [Read more...]

Ever heard the phrase “Read the source, Luke”? It’s a play on “Use the force, Luke” from Star Wars, with no definite source ????, maybe a blog post by Jeff Atwood; and it underlines how important and useful it can be to read the source code of a tool instead ... [Read more...]

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In this post, we shall introduce CRAN checks in general and use the recent changes of the r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang CRAN platform as a case study of how R-hub can help you, package developers, handle CRAN checks and keep up with CRAN platforms. CRAN checks 101 All CRAN packages are R CMD ... [Read more...]

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Version 1.1.1 of the rhub package has been released on CRAN! rhub allows to check packages on R-hub package builder, or on local Docker images, without leaving R. Get rhub’s latest version from a safe CRAN mirror near you: install.packages("rhub") This release, compared to rhub 1.0.2, should improve user ... [Read more...]

tl;dr: You should care about R-hub if you care about R CMD check, on all operating systems, for free, and don’t ever want to leave R. So, why use the R-hub package builder? It is useful As an R package developer, you probably regularly use R CMD check ... [Read more...]