[GenABEL-dev] Fwd: CRAN package GenABEL

[Yurii Aulchenko]

Dear All,

following the request below I think I should disable the version checks for
the GenA-package.

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).

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.

I think the same thing applies to some packages other than GenA and DatA,
and respective package maintainers should have received similar requests.

best regards,
Y

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Subject: CRAN package GenABEL
To: Yurii Aulchenko <yurii at bionet.nsc.ru>
Cc: CRAN <CRAN at r-project.org>


This is currently failing to load with

* checking whether the package can be loaded ... ERROR
Loading required package: MASS
Error in stringSplit[[1]] : subscript out of bounds
GenABEL v. 1.7-6 (May 16, 2013) loaded

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.


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