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

[LUCA BELMONTE]

Hi Dason,

I wrote it from scratch.

Thank you for the suggestion though,

Luca

2017-11-09 17:17 GMT+01:00 Dason Kurkiewicz <dasonk at gmail.com>:

> 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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> >
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Luca Belmonte, PhD

Dept. Life Sciences,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Mobile: +39 328 45 81 762

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