[R-pkg-devel] R CMD Check: package dependencies

[Uwe Ligges]

On 18.01.2017 13:04, Kate Hartmann wrote:
> Hello:
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> I am working on uploading my first R package to CRAN and running into a
> problem with package dependencies with R CMD check using win-builder (I am
> not having this problem on my mac).  I am getting:
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> “Package required but not available: ‘grasp2db’”
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> Best I can tell this is because ‘grasp2b’ is an ‘annotation package’ and
> although win-builder includes all CRAN packages it only includes
> Bioconductor ‘software’ packages.  One of the functions in my package
> requires ‘grasp2db’ otherwise I would do my best to move it to ‘suggests’
> rather than ‘imports’.
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> Any advice you might have would be very much appreciated.


I think moving it to suggests is a good idea if only a very small part 
of your package needs it. But as it is small in size, I have no problem 
on installing it on winbuilder.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


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> Kate
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