/CRANt-touch-this

notes and resources of things to check before submitting a package to CRAN, to help you and others have as stress free a time as possible

CRANt-touch-this

Thinking of submitting your package to CRAN for the first time?
Notes and resources of things to check before submission, to help you have as stress free a time as possible

Useful reading:

https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2021-11-23-getting-started-with-unit-testing-in-r/

https://r-pkgs.org/release.html

https://www.marinedatascience.co/blog/2020/01/09/checklist-for-r-package-re-submissions-on-cran/

https://johnmuschelli.com/neuroc/getting_ready_for_submission/index.html

Compendium

https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/awesome-r-pkgtools

A veritable cornucopia of things to read and work through.

Particularly: https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/awesome-r-pkgtools#cran-checks-submission-and-status-

urlchecker -

https://github.com/r-lib/urlchecker has functions that find errant URLs, and updates them if they need redirecting, or if they are just plain wrong. I failed submission because of a missing trailing '/' in a URL, don't let that happen to you.

Checks before submission

https://github.com/DavisVaughan/extrachecks

https://github.com/coolbutuseless/CRAN-checks

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