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vincentarelbundock / countrycode

R package: Convert country names and country codes. Assigns region descriptors.
https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/countrycode
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CRAN release still offers 0.18 binaries #130

Closed cjyetman closed 7 years ago

cjyetman commented 7 years ago

as can be seen here https://cran.r-project.org/package=countrycode

when installing in R, it says...

  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
            binary source needs_compilation
countrycode   0.18   0.19             FALSE

installing the source package ‘countrycode’

which gets the desired result (installing the latest version 0.19), but I wonder if there's something that could/should be done on this end to archive the 0.18 binary so it's not seen as a pseudo-option and directly available on the CRAN page?

vincentarelbundock commented 7 years ago

Is there a delay before binaries are built?

Teaching all day today, so can't really look into this now...

cjyetman commented 7 years ago

that may be the case... some of these have changed already since I first looked at it... https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_countrycode.html

it also says here "Binary packages are not accepted from maintainers: CRAN will only host binary packages prepared by those responsible for the binary areas. Their packages are made automatically by batch jobs and can take a day or two to appear on the CRAN master site (maybe longer to reach CRAN mirrors)."

Though that does not explicitly say that CRAN allows multiple versions of a package to be simultaneously offered in different forms, it seems that is what it does. I expected that the source version would not be released until it had passed compiling on all the test machines. I checked another package that was released yesterday, and the same type of thing is happening (currently).

I'll just close this... sorry for the false alarm.