metacran / mason

A friendly craftsman that builds you great R packages

metacran — Tooling around CRAN R packages

metacran is a collection of projects to allow better tooling around CRAN R packages. It contains a number of projects. The following ones are stably working and can be considered beta software:

• Web site to browse and search CRAN packages.
• CRAN @ github, read-only mirror of CRAN at github.
• crandb, a database of CRAN R packages, with an HTTP API, and an R package to access it from R.
• CRAN package search, based on crandb. This is now included in the Metacran web site at http://www.r-pkg.org.
• seer, R package to search for CRAN packages.
• r-builder Scripts to use Travis or another CI to build and check R packages with various R versions, including R-devel.
• cranlogs A database and R package for daily R package download counts from the RStudio CRAN mirror.
• rversions An R package to query R versions and their release dates from the R project SVN repository.

metacran also contains some experimental packages and tools:

• spareserver R package to fallback to another web server if the main one is not responding.
• cranny packer templates to build the metacran servers.

mason's Issues

Broken with development crayon

> mason::mason("rpkg")
Error: object ‘start’ is not exported by 'namespace:crayon'

As of 107383e at least.

Logging

Licensing issue

With the MIT, at least, CRAN prefers the:

YEAR: foobar
COPYRIGHT HOLDER: bazqux

format (found this out the hard way after submitting a mason-built package ;p)

Composition of templates

A template can build on another template.

R studio addin

Maybe this should go to https://github.com/gaborcsardi/ask, actually.

Error in !when(answers) : invalid argument type

> mason::mason("rpkg")
★ Directory not empty. Proceed? (y/N) ✔
★ Name: testDocumentDuringBuild   
★ Title: testDocumentDuringBuild   
★ Version: 1.0.0   
★ Author: 
★ Maintainer: 
★ Description: testDocumentDuringBuild   
★ License: GPL-3
★ URL: https://github.com/<gh-username>/testDocumentDuringBuild   
★ BugReports: https://github.com/<gh-username>/testDocumentDuringBuild/issues   
★ Testing framework: testthat
★ README.md file: (Y/n) ✔      
★ README.Rmd file: (Y/n) ✖    
★ NEWS.md file: (Y/n) ✔
★ Continuous integration: Travis, Appveyor
★ Create git repo? (Y/n) ✖               
Error in !when(answers) : invalid argument type

Installed everything from GitHub just now (Fre Jun 5 23:38:46 CEST 2015):

> devtools::session_info()
Session info -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu           
 ui       X11                         
 language en_US:en                    
 collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
 tz       <NA>                        

Packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 package       * version     date       source                                    
 ask             1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/ask@0247d9b)          
 crayon          1.3.0       2015-06-05 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 devtools        1.8.0.9000  2015-06-04 local                                     
 digest          0.6.8       2014-12-31 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 falsy           1.0.1       2015-04-09 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 httr            0.6.1       2015-01-01 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 jsonlite        0.9.16      2015-04-11 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 keypress        1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/keypress@131fa63)     
 lazyeval        0.1.10.9000 2015-05-03 local                                     
 magrittr      * 1.5         2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 mason           1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/mason@de4e9dd)        
 mason.rpkg      1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/mason.rpkg@eb8f820)   
 memoise         0.2.1       2014-04-22 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 prettysymbols   1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/prettysymbols@a6106c4)
 rstudioapi      0.3.1       2015-04-07 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 stringi         0.4-1       2014-12-14 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 stringr         1.0.0       2015-04-30 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 ulimit          0.0-2       2015-04-14 local                                     
 whisker         0.3-2       2013-04-28 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                            
 whoami          1.0.0       2015-06-05 Github (gaborcsardi/whoami@a4a5ca1)       

Sorry, don't have time to investigate it further, but hope it helps anyway. Very neat approach, by the way!

Offer a menu of templates, installed and available

Think about renaming

mason is taken: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mason/index.html

Pre-answered questions

I.e. the user can have a config file (or something) that contains the answers to some questions, and then these are never asked. Will need to work out, how exactly this would work.

Gets stuck at Continuous integration

For me with current versions, this gets stuck at the Travis/Appveyor question. I can select buttons with space move up and down but can't move the questions ahead. On both Mac and Linux, in the terminal. In the R gui thing on a mac it works OK. I suspect this is an ask problem?