Building and checking R source packages for Windows.

This site provides services for building and checking R source packages for 32-bit Windows.

This service is intended for useRs who do not have Windows available for checking and building Windows binary packages. Windows useRs can easily build and check their packages on Windows with the setup described in the R Installation and Administration manual.

A Windows Server 2003 SP1 machine (AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+, 2Gb) builds and checks your source packages and makes the installation log, check log and the Windows binary available.

Currently, both R-release (which currently is in fact R-2.7.0) is running and ready for uploads.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Prepare your source package (using R CMD build) and add yourself including your e-mail address in the "Maintainer" field of the DESCRIPTION file (this is important, or you won't get any response from this server).
2. Check the package on your platform (using R CMD check).
3. If the package passes the checks under your platform, upload it using passive ftp in binary mode (login as anonymous) to the directory R-release (for R-2.7.0) on ftp://win-builder.r-project.org/. Passive ftp can be performed with recent ftp clients (but not the Windows internal one) and using Browsers (such as Mozilla-alikes and IE) for the upload.
   As an alternative, you can try out the upload page.
4. Wait for half an hour or so and check the e-mail address you have specified in the "Maintainer" field of the package's DESCRIPTION file. An e-mail should have arrived that will explain where the binary and the log files can be downloaded from: A randomly generated directory on this server which will be deleted after roughly 72 hours.
   

Disclaimer:

• You are using this service on your own risk!
• We do not guarantee privacy nor confidentiality of the uploaded files or data in any way: Names of uploaded packages are always listable by everybody. After the compilation process we try to hide the binary package as well as the logs using randomly chosen directory names. Nevertheless, everybody who knows or guesses those names can download those files.
• Although virus checking is performed on the compiled binary packages, we do not guarantee that files made available for download are free of malware (such as viruses or trojans).
• The results of R CMD check are returned from a particular given system with a particular setup and might not be reproducible on other systems. Hence we do not guarantee for the results of R CMD check.