[R-pkg-devel] issues with SOfun - package upload

[Uwe Ligges]

And even this cannot work for strong dependencies, as sztrong 
deendencies must be available from mainstream repositoreis.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




On 08.11.2017 17:59, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> I think you should be using:
> 
> Additional_repositories: https://github.com/mrdwab/SOfun
> 
> since that is the actual repository.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 17:01 +0100, LUCA BELMONTE wrote:
>> Good evening,
>>
>> I am trying to upload my package, called PdPDB 2.0.
>> When building and checking the package with R-studio with --as-cran
>> option
>> selected, everything looks ok but, once I tried to upload the package
>> to
>> CRAN I had the following reply:
>>
>> *"Strong dependencies not in mainstream repositories:*
>> *  SOfun*
>> ** checking package namespace information ... OK*
>> ** checking package dependencies ... ERROR*
>> *Package required but not available: 'SOfun'"*
>>
>> I understand the issue it with SOfun that is a package I downloaded
>> and
>> installed from this github url: https://github.com/mrdwab/SOfun
>>
>> I came back to CARN policies and I have read:
>>
>>
>> *"Packages on which a CRAN package depends should be available from a
>> mainstream repository: if any mentioned in ‘Suggests’ or ‘Enhances’
>> fields
>> are not from such a repository, where to obtain them at a repository
>> should
>> be specified in an ‘Additional_repositories’ field of the DESCRIPTION
>> file
>> (as a comma-separated list of repository URLs) or for other means of
>> access, described in the ‘Description’ field."*
>>
>> So, I updated the DESCRIPTION file as follows:
>> Additional_repositories: http://news.mrdwab.com/install_github.R
>>
>> Before to proceed to submission, I would like to know if this is the
>> right
>> way to proceed or I misinterpreted the submission procedure.
>>
>> Thank you for reading this email,
>> Best,
>>
> 
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