[R-pkg-devel] Confusion over CRAN build error for package Brundle

[Andrew Holding]

Dear Uwe,

Thanks for your response.

Andy

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 at 13:16 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

>
>
> On 02.10.2017 08:23, Andrew Holding wrote:
> > Forgive me for possibly being naive. I have run the current version of my
> >
> > package, Brundle,  through the test systems on win-builder, and the
> > development and stable tests both pass. The package builds on my desktop
> > (MacOS) still runs fine.
> >
> > Yet for the last two days I the package has caused warnings from CRAN.
> >
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Brundle.html
> >
> >  From the logs it appears to me that several of the errors are due
> missing
> > BioConductor package.
> >
> > e.g.  Packages required but not available: ‘DiffBind’ ‘Rsamtools’
> ‘DESeq2’
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious? I understood that the test environment
> > included these packages.
> >
>
> The problem with missing BioC dependencies can be ignored as well as the
> R-devel Windows error. THe latter will be auto-resolved, the BioC stuff
> depends on the fact that CRAN upgraded to BioC 3.6 which is in
> development and will be released before R-devel, hence we check against
> it, but it is rather instable and sometimes we cannot intsall the BioC
> packagess yet.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
> --
Dr Andrew Holding
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