cran-checklist.md

In fstpackage/synthetic: Synthetic dataset creation and serialization benchmarks

Checks before releasing to CRAN

• Build and test package on:
  • Travis Linux and OSX
  • AppVeyor (Windows Server)
  • latest R dev version on Windows
• Build packages with dependencies on syntheticbench
• Merge develop branch into release branch
• Bump version to even value in DESCRIPTION and check package startup message
• Update README.Rmd and verify generated README.md on Github (release)
• Update cran_comments.md
• Update NEWS.md and make sure to remove '(in development)' in the version title and update the version number
• Credit all GitHub contributions in NEWS.md
• Build docs folder using pkgdown::build_site()
• Merge branch release into master
• Submit to CRAN

After releasing to CRAN

• Merge branch master into release
• Go to the repository release page and create a new release with tag version vx.y.z. Copy and paste the contents of the relevant NEWS.md section into the release notes.
• Add '(in development)' to version title in NEWS.md and update to odd version number
• Bump version to odd value in DESCRIPTION and check package startup message
• Check package startup message
• Merge release branch into develop

fstpackage/synthetic documentation built on Jan. 23, 2020, 4:32 p.m.