Request: Hosting R package in R-universe

[david-cortes]

Catboost has an R version, but this version is not currently in CRAN (the R package repository). Installing it is very inconvenient, as right now the only reliable way of doing so is by either manually downloading a compressed file from the GitHub releases page and using R CMD INSTALL, or by building it from source by cloning the repo (R install instructions from the docs do not work due to timeout, unless one has a very fast connection and is located nearby a yandex server).

ROpenSci has now launched the R-universe package repository, which doesn't have so strict requirements for packages as CRAN. Catboost uses its own build system and follows code practices which would disquality it from being accepted at CRAN, but it could still be hosted as an installable package in R-universe.

Would be nice to see catboost getting its R releases there, so that it could be installed easily with install.packages from R and so that its R documentation would be easily browsable.

[vidarsumo]

Any updates regardin either R-universe or CRAN?

[andrey-khropov]

Any updates regardin either R-universe or CRAN?

https://github.com/catboost/catboost/milestone/2. Switching CatBoost to CMake-based build in release 1.2 paved the way to CRAN release (#439 ), but there is still more work to do. If you can contribute you might speed up the process.