[R] R-Forge not building packages?

[Spencer Graves]

       If I'm not mistaken, R-forge is run by volunteers who have real 
jobs otherwise.  The system occasionally grinds to a halt without them 
noticing.  So far, each time that happens, they restart something, but 
they have yet to identify and fix the root cause of why it stops.


       Spencer


On 12/3/2012 10:34 AM, Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
> Thanks for all the feedback, I have written a message to R-Forge help ...
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> I will not be surprised if it takes longer than a week to build a
>> package on R-Forge, although I have no idea why it has to be
>> incredibly slow (do they have Sys.sleep(7*24*60*60) somewhere in the
>> code?). I do have found an alternative solution, though, which is to
>> spend these days on teaching more R users (especially Windows users)
>> how to install R packages via R CMD INSTALL or
>> devtools::install_github(). That is usually a lot faster than R-Forge.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ulrich Staudinger
>> <ustaudinger at activequant.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am waiting since days for my package to be built on R-Forge.
>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=1518
>>>
>>> R-Forge says:
>>>   Version: 0.2 | Last change: 2012-11-27 21:37:05+01 | Rev.: 32
>>> Build status: Building
>>>
>>> But I am already at revision 37 and R-Forge doesn't move since 6 days....
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ulrich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ulrich Staudinger
>>>
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>>> E: ustaudinger at activequant.com
>>>
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>>>
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