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

[LUCA BELMONTE]

Dear Brian,
Dear Uwe,

Thank you for your replies.

I wrote a function that does the same stuff that the suggested package
does.
Now there are no reference to suggested packages.

Best,
Luca

2017-11-08 18:03 GMT+01:00 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:

> 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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