[R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

[Ege Rubak]

Hi,

It may be a big task to ship all of GSL with your R package, and since 
it is a large standard library which is "easy" to install on most 
systems, I doubt that it's worth the effort. I would recommend putting 
`GSL (>=2.3)` in `SystemRequirements` in your DESCRIPTION file.

As you point out, this requires that the CRAN team can find the time to 
update GSL on their machines. Uwe often sees things on this list, so you 
may be lucky that he replies directly when he has time (the CRAN people 
tend to have busy day jobs also).

If you don't hear anything on this list in the near future you could 
also try to submit your package to CRAN with the message that you are 
aware that it fails on their Windows machines due to an old version of 
GSL which you would like to be updated if possible. If done in a 
respectful manner I think this should be OK and not wasting their time, 
but others on this list may have better suggestions of how to approach 
this issue.

Best wishes,
Ege

On 11/09/2019 11.49, Raphael Hartmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope you don't mind me asking again:
> Does anybody have an idea on how to implement the whole GSL library in
> my package? I was not able to find sth. on Google.
> 
> Whom should I contact for asking whether it is possible to update GSL
> for Windows on CRAN? There were no warnings or errors in the CRAN
> checks for debian. For Windows on CRAN, the compiler gives only an
> error where a GSL routine of version 2.3 is used.
> 
> Best wishes
> Raphael
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 08:19:37 +0200
>   "Raphael Hartmann" <raphael.hartmann using psychologie.uni-freiburg.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I developed an R package that requires at least version 2.3 of GSL
>> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/). The newest version is 2.6.
>>
>> Version 2.3 is now available for over two years, and I was wondering
>> whether it was possible to update GSL on the win-builder? I would
>> really appreciate it. Without it my package will be rejected on CRAN.
>>
>> Or is there an option to include the whole GSL library in the package?
>>
>> On my machines (two debian based and one Windows server 16 and one
>> Windows 10) the package passes the checks of "R CMD check --as-cran".
>> On builder.r-hub.io with Windows server 12 it is also successful.
>>
>> I would be glad for any advice / suggestions / hints.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Raphael
>>
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