How did our organization get on the r-universe build list?

[martinamorris]

Hello out there ... This seems like a very quiet discussion site, so, fingers crossed.

Our GH organization, statnet was added to the r-universe list -- which is great, btw -- but we're not sure how that happened.

We don't have a universe repo, and we're not sure why some of our repos have been added, but others not (e.g., tergmLite).

We'd love to know more about how to maintain/update our stuff on r-universe. Thx!

I'm guessing @jeroen might know?

[jeroen]

statnet was one of the lucky organizations that I manually enabled to test the r-universe system :-)

If you don't have a universe repo, the packages are scraped from CRAN. We look for all CRAN packages that have a URL or BugReports field that points to https://github.com/statnet/*. You can find the current list here, it gets updated daily: https://github.com/r-universe-org/cran-to-git/blob/master/statnet.json

Once you create a universe repo, this will take precedence an you control yourself which packages get included.

This is also described in the last section in this blog post: https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/06/22/setup-runiverse/#auto-generated-universes-for-cran-developers

[martinamorris]

And we thank you for making us a guinea pig. We've made use of your builds already several times in a pinch when we discover a bug just before a workshop, and need the binaries for participants in short order. This is a really useful system you've set up.

Thanks, too, for the quick response.