[Bioc-devel] YAPSA package submission

[Martin Morgan]

(including Bioc-devel again...)

On 08/01/2016 07:12 AM, Daniel Huebschmann wrote:
> Dear martin,
>
> thank you very much for your reply. I tried out the following:
>
> - install.packages("limSolve") in R-3.3.1 on Windows 10
>
> This worked out, so comparing to the report under
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/limSolve-00check.html
> it seems like it is only an example of limSolve which throws the error.
> Is that of major importance?
> Of course I can still try to contact the authors of limSolve.
>

the example represents a test of the code, and apparently the code fails 
the test, so yes, it's important!

If you try to install limSolve from R_HOME/bin/x86_64 things go fine, 
but from R_HOME/bin/i386/Rgui.exe, you'll see that it is 'only available 
from source'. Likewise if you try to load the version you installed 
under x86_64 but under i386, you'll see that the 32-bit DLL is not 
available.

It's much better for the package to be fixed up-stream than to introduce 
all kinds of conditions under which your package would be available.

Martin

> As Valerie took over the review of my package (YAPSA), I also wrote this on
> https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/71
>
> Thank you very much, best Daniel.
>
>
> 2016-07-29 13:13 GMT+02:00 Martin Morgan <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org
> <mailto:martin.morgan at roswellpark.org>>:
>
>     On 07/29/2016 06:34 AM, Daniel Huebschmann via Bioc-devel wrote:
>
>         Dear all,
>         I am trying to submit my software package called YAPSA to
>         Bioconductor. I
>         repeatedly get an error in the automatic checks on moscato1
>         (Windows),
>         whereas on the other operating systems my package is built and
>         checked
>         without any problem. For the log please also feel free to follow
>         this link:
>         http://bioconductor.org/spb_reports/YAPSA_buildreport_20160727111256.html
>
>         The main problem on moscato1 seems to be:
>
>         Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
>           DLL 'limSolve' not found: maybe not installed for this
>         architecture?
>
>         Do you have any tricksor suggestions how to overcome this?
>         Thank you very much in advance for your help and cooperation,
>
>
>     Hi Daniel --
>
>     From
>
>     https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-windows-ix86+x86_64/limSolve-00check.html
>
>     it appears that limSolve fails to build on Windows under R-3.3.1.
>     The solution is to get maintainer('limSolve') to fix their package,
>     or to find a solution to your problem that does not rely on limSolve.
>
>     Martin
>
>         best regards Daniel.
>
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