Submit to CRAN?

[sckott]

👋 Any plans to submit to CRAN? Anything we can do to help?

[erykwalczak]

That's definitely the plan. I'm quite busy these days so it might need to wait. It would be helpful to know what needs improving in order to have the package accepted to CRAN.

[sckott]

• one rule about CRAN maintainers is they are not consistent, so they may or may not complain about certain things
• run your pkg against rhub with https://github.com/r-hub/rhub and against cran's windows testers with devtools::check_win_devel() and devtools::check_win_release() - which should bring up anything you may need to change

took a quick look, and i see a few things:

• Title in DESCRIPTION file: this should be each word capitalized.
• Description in DESCRIPTION file: they'll probaably want postcodes.io as <https://postcodes.io> or whatever the full url is
• examples: think about your examples that make http requests, if they fail when running on CRAN, they'll treat it as a bug and make you resubmit
• tests: any tests that make http requests, for CRAN you may want to change the setup. some options are: 1) just run tests as normal, but if they ever fail, CRAN will make you fix and resubmit, 2) testthat::skip_on_cran so that tests run locally and on CI's, but not on CRAN, 3) mock tests, could use https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/webmockr/ or https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vcr/

[erykwalczak]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've just submitted to CRAN.

[erykwalczak]

PostcodesioR is now on CRAN.