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

[Laurent Gatto]

On  8 August 2016 21:29, Gabe Becker wrote:

> 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.

Soon actually means now - version 0.2.0 was just released on CRAN.

Laurent

> ~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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