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 ^appveyor\.yml$
 ^codecov\.yml$
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+^cran-comments\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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 Package: splashr
 Type: Package
-Title: Tools to Work with the 'Splash' 'JavaScript' Rendering Service
+Title: Tools to Work with the 'Splash' 'JavaScript' Rendering and Scraping Service
 Version: 0.4.0
 Date: 2017-08-26
 Encoding: UTF-8
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Authors@R: c(
     )
 Maintainer: Bob Rudis <bob@rud.is>
 Description: 'Splash' <https://github.com/scrapinghub/splash> is a 'JavaScript' rendering service.
-    It’s a lightweight web browser with an 'HTTP' API, implemented in 'Python' using 'Twisted' 
+    It is a lightweight web browser with an 'HTTP' API, implemented in 'Python' using 'Twisted' 
     and 'QT' and provides some of the core functionality of the 'RSelenium' or 'seleniumPipes'
-    R pacakges in a lightweight footprint. Some of 'Splash' features include the ability to process 
-    multiple webpages in parallel; retrieving 'HTML' results and/or take screenshots; disabling 
+    R packages in a lightweight footprint. Some of 'Splash' features include the ability to process 
+    multiple web pages in parallel; retrieving 'HTML' results and/or take screen shots; disabling 
     images or use 'Adblock Plus' rules to make rendering faster; executing custom 'JavaScript' in 
     page context; getting detailed rendering info in 'HAR' format.
 URL: http://github.com/hrbrmstr/splashr
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * moved to 'docker' pacakge since it's on CRAN
 * temporarily removed `render_file()` support
 * added code coverage
+* CRAN release 
 
 0.3.0
 
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+## Test environments
+
+* local OS X install, R 3.4.1 on both 10.12 and 10.13 Beta 6
+* local ubuntu 3.4.1 and r-devel
+* ubuntu on travis-ci, R oldrel, 3.4.1 and r-devel
+* win-builder (devel and release)
+
+## R CMD check results
+
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
+
+* This is a new release.
+
+## Reverse dependencies
+
+This is a new release, so there are no reverse dependencies.
+
+---
+
+Hey folks,
+
+The tests skip on CRAN and the examples are \dontrun{} because
+they require an active Splash server running for the most 
+accurate results (mocking would not exercise the interaction with
+the Splash API server). The core functionality is much the same
+as RSelenium, but Splash is more designed for scraping
+than Selenium which is more geared towards web site automated
+testing. This will hopefully be a nice addition to the R web
+scraping world.
+
+It is fully tested on Travis: https://travis-ci.org/hrbrmstr/splashr
+with 2 different Python configurations across all three R versions. 
+It's an active test that spins up a local Docker container and runs
+on push and weekly. (It imports the 'docker' package, hence my
+mentioning the diverse python configs).
+
+Neither Appveyor (and, all other free Windows CI systems) nor
+rhub nor WinBuilder support co-runbninbg Docker linux containers 
+so the tests are not run there, but the package is built regularly 
+on WinBuilder and rhub's Windows and "CRAN" environments to 
+catch any other platform-related package errors.
+
+There are many Imports because this works with a diverse amount
+of web content and also tries to play well with 'httr' and 'rvest'
+as well as the 'hartools' package.
+
+There are three vignettes and I tried to reduce the image sizes
+for the figures in them as much as possible. I'll glady do some 
+cropping if you would like the total size to be even smaller. I 
+fully understand wanting to keep pacakges as small as possible.
+
+The package is also well-documented and has 44% code coverage:
+https://codecov.io/gh/hrbrmstr/splashr/tree/master/R
+I'm going to get that up closer to 80% for the next release which will 
+extend the "DSL" functions.
+
+Thx for your time & efforts!
+
+-boB
+
+P.S. Hope you folks had a great summer!