[Bioc-devel] Imports version that's only available on github?

[Gabe Becker]

Alex (et al),

Yihui is currently working towards a CRAN release for a modern version of
DT, so sometime "soon" (I have no insight into what definition of soon is
in use here) things should work in your particular case.

~G

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Martin Morgan <
martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:

> On 08/05/2016 01:55 PM, Alex Pickering wrote:
>
>> My package requires a version of 'DT' that's only available on github. I
>> tried following the answer to this SO
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30493388/create-an-r-
>> package-that-depends-on-another-r-package-located-on-github>
>> (specifying 'Remotes' in the DESCRIPTION in addition to the version needed
>> in 'Imports'). Build failed with "Package required and available but
>> unsuitable version: 'DT'". How should this be handled? Thank you,
>>
>
> Packages must be on CRAN or Bioconductor; the rationale is that these
> represent stable, tested, and somehow mature packages, rather than an
> arbitrary package of unknown stability. The StackOverflow question is a
> solution for devtools, but biocLite() uses install.packages().
>
> Martin
>
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Gabriel Becker, Ph.D
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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