<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>following the request below I think I should disable the version checks for the GenA-package. </div><div><br></div><div>I do not like this, but the only way around I can see would be to keep the most current version in some file on one of our servers (we did that with earlier versions). This, however, is an extra maintenance cost - there will be 4 places to change the version on update (CHANGES.LOG, DESCRIPTION, zzz.R, and the remote version-file). </div>
<div><br></div><div>So I am going to comment out the whole version-checking part of GenA-package, in the style if (FALSE) {xxx}... Interestingly enough, DatA does the same thing, but I did not get request about DatA. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I think the same thing applies to some packages other than GenA and DatA, and respective package maintainers should have received similar requests. </div><div><br></div><div>best regards,</div><div>Y<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Prof Brian Ripley</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk">ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM<br>Subject: CRAN package GenABEL<br>To: Yurii Aulchenko <<a href="mailto:yurii@bionet.nsc.ru">yurii@bionet.nsc.ru</a>><br>Cc: CRAN <<a href="mailto:CRAN@r-project.org">CRAN@r-project.org</a>><br>
<br><br>This is currently failing to load with<br>
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* checking whether the package can be loaded ... ERROR<br>
Loading required package: MASS<br>
Error in stringSplit[[1]] : subscript out of bounds<br>
GenABEL v. 1.7-6 (May 16, 2013) loaded<br>
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That's because you insist on looking on CRAN every time the namespace is loaded, and your error catching is not good enough. Please remove the test. Apart from anything else, it is an unreasonable load: R CMD check is going to access CRAN ca 20 times.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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