Submit to CRAN

[trashbirdecology]

Identify what we need to fix/update/add to submit package to CRAN.
See:

• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

@GabsPalomo would you mind making a checklist of what we need to accomplish to submit the first release to CRAN?

Here is a blog (opinion piece) about submitting to CRAN https://www.r-bloggers.com/submitting-your-first-package-to-cran-my-experience/

Perhaps also @juniperlsimonis has some advice for us?!

[GabsPalomo]

On it. Will send it in a few.

[juniperlsimonis]

i highly recommend using devtools and basically going through all of the steps in devtools::release. before you get to a final step of actually sending it to cran (after which you need to verify the submission via email they send you!), it runs through a number of steps that are good practice before submission. not all of them are required (you don't have to run a spell check and you don't have to have a changelog), but they're good to have.
devtools::build_win is also a nice and easy way to submit a test to win builder, a key step in making sure you're good cross-platform
also! make sure you're testing against R-devel (the development version). you can have this getting done by travis with a minor edit to the yaml file, see e.g. https://github.com/weecology/portalcasting/blob/master/.travis.yml (lines 5-7). there were some major changes wrt random number generating in base R that means the differences between the versions of R you can test again may be significant.
lmk if you have any questions!
good luck!

[trashbirdecology]

@juniperlsimonis very helpful, thank you. Don't worry -- there will be questions....

[juniperlsimonis]

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[trashbirdecology]

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[trashbirdecology]

nat sent this video re: first cran submission -- pretty useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zID-rVDEHQ

[GabsPalomo]

I promise to work on the cran to do list today.

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[trashbirdecology]

Okay -- give me a couple of hours at least, I am trying to get an issue created using use_github_release which should automate the to-do list for CRAN in an issue :)

[trashbirdecology]

Okay, I am closing this, please refer to Issue 44