[R-pkg-devel] Package suggested but not available for checking: 'rPeaks'; Additional_repositories

[Ralf Stubner]

On 15.04.19 18:50, Tan Zhou wrote:
> I followed the suggestions based on
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29419776/r-package-dependencies-not-installed-from-additional-repositories
> .
> But it didn't work out for me. OR maybe I didn't set up it right.
> 
> My GitHub repository is https://github.com/tankwin08/waveformlidar.
> 
> My DESCRIPTION:
> Suggests:
>     knitr,
> rPeaks
> Additional_repositories: https://github.com/jrminter/rPeaks/

The 'Additional_repositories' field is meant for additional CRAN-like
repositories, not for a git(hub) repository. A simple way to create such
a CRAN-like repository is given by the drat package, as mentioned in the
referenced SO answer. I am using that for the swephR package:

...
Suggests:
    testthat,
    swephRdata,
    knitr,
    rmarkdown
Encoding: UTF-8
URL: https://github.com/rstub/swephR/, http://www.astro.com/swisseph/
BugReports: https://github.com/rstub/swephR/issues/
Additional_repositories: https://rstub.github.io/drat
...


So while the 'swephRdata' can be found at
https://github.com/rstub/swephRdata/, the 'Additional_repositories'
field points to my drat repository.

In your case, you could either ask the rPeaks author to create a drat
repo or do that yourself (possibly with the author's consent).

Greetings
Ralf

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