[Bioc-devel] modify _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ ?

[Michael Lawrence]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Martin Morgan
<martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
> You can create a plain text file in the root directory of your package
> .BBSoptions with the line
>
>   UnsupportedPlatform: win
>
> Your package will not be available on Windows, losing about 1/2 your
> potential audience.

I'm not sure how many people will endeavor to run that part of the
icetea pipeline on their Windows laptop. What about separating the
preprocessing and downstream exploratory stuff into two packages?

> A better strategy is to figure out why you are
> Suggests:'ing Rsubread, and find alternative cross-platform solutions.
>
> I would not hesitate to add your voice to mine in asking the Rsubread
> maintainer to make their package cross-platform compatible. While this
> requires considerable work, it would benefit the Bioconductor community in
> this and subsequent years.
>
> Martin
>
> On 05/18/2018 04:55 PM, Bhardwaj, Vivek wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>>
>> My package is in review and the build is failing since a suggested package
>> (Rsubread) is not available on windows. Is there a way for me to instruct
>> the build machine on bioc to use: _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ = FALSE ??
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Vivek
>>
>> --------
>>
>> Vivek Bhardwaj
>> PhD Candidate | International Max Planck Research School
>> Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
>> St�beweg 51, Freiburg
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