[Rd] Rigroup external package ready to go but no incoming at ftp site

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

I found a web page that said to upload using ftp to cran.r- 
project.org/incoming

Unfortunately, I can't seem to do that either.

[kbhend at base3 src]$ ftp -d cran.r-project.org
Connected to cran.wu-wien.ac.at.
220 Welcome to the CRAN FTP service.
---> AUTH GSSAPI
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
---> AUTH KERBEROS_V4
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (cran.r-project.org:kbhend): anonymous
---> USER anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
---> PASS XXXX
230-Welcome, CRAN useR!
230-
230-If you have any unusual problems,
230-please report them via e-mail to <cran-sysadmin at statmath.wu- 
wien.ac.at>.
230-
230 Login successful.
---> SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd incoming
---> CWD incoming
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> put Rigroup_0.80.0.tar.gz
local: Rigroup_0.80.0.tar.gz remote: Rigroup_0.80.0.tar.gz
---> TYPE I
200 Switching to Binary mode.
ftp: setsockopt (ignored): Permission denied
---> PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (137,208,57,37,223,191)
---> STOR Rigroup_0.80.0.tar.gz
553 Could not create file.
ftp>


Any ideas?

Kevin

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to lots of help and hints, I now have a working validated
> external version of all of the igroup functions.  The source Package
> is called Rigroup_0.80.0.tar.gz and it passes R CMD check of my Linux
> box and will install and pass all tests on my Mac OSX(Intel and PPC)
> machines and my Linux boxes
> (Fedora Core 5).  I would like a Windows user to build and install it
> if there are any volunteers.  The code include test cases and has
> been modified to handle localizations, includes full man Rd files,
> uses a NAMESPACE, etc.
>
> So I think I am ready to upload it but following the instructions in
> R_ext.pdf
> say to ftp to ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at and put the file in incoming/ and
> then send e-mail to cran at r-project.org about it.
>
> The problem is there is no "incoming/" directory that I could see or
> that I could cd into when ftping to that machine.
>
> So I was wondering how do I make my package available?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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