Publish on CRAN?

[enricoschumann]

I have said it before: it's good to see an up-to-date pure-R implementation of the IB API.

Just out of curiosity: have you considered publishing your package on CRAN?

[lbilli]

It has not been a top priority of mine but I might take a look at what's needed in order to be accepted by CRAN.

[enricoschumann]

I'd encourage you to release on CRAN. I think that a majority of R users only uses packages from CRAN (via install.packages() ), and so won't use your package.

The CRAN requirements are not that high -- mainly documentation, a clean list of dependencies (in the DESCRIPTION file), and a willingness to fix issues that they see in their test infrastructure (e. g. when there were changes in base R after a new release). The latter in particular is a very beneficial feature, I think.

Essentially, you'll see what is missing by running

 `R CMD check --as-cran rib_0.17.2.tar.gz`

on the tarball (from R CMD build).

[lbilli]

It's now available on CRAN.

[riazarbi]

Congratulations! I just checked back on your repo after about 6 months and my timing is impeccable. Well done, I know the CRAN hoops can be quite challenging.

[enricoschumann]

Great!

(Your package is now also listed in the Finance Task View, https://github.com/cran-task-views/Finance/blob/master/Finance.md, to be mirrored on CRAN https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html.)