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

[Dason Kurkiewicz]

Did you write it from scratch or modify the function from the package
you were referencing?  There may be some licensing issues you need to
consider either way.

-Dason

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:53 AM, LUCA BELMONTE <luca.belmonte at unimore.it> wrote:
> 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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