[R-pkg-devel] r2sundials submission failure

[Serguei Sokol]

Hi,

I have tried to submit my new package 
https://github.com/sgsokol/r2sundials to CRAN but submission seems to be 
dismissed.
The package needs a third part software 
https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials/cvodes so it cannot be 
built on CRAN automatically. I explained this (and how the package was 
tested by myself) in the submitter's comment (cf. hereafter) and second 
time in the reply to all (as was requested) to automatic message from 
CRAN announcing the building failure but to no avail. The submission was 
done on November 25, more than two weeks later I still don't have any 
response and the package is no more in incoming/ dir on cran ftp site. I 
conclude that this submission is dismissed.

My question is: what can be reasonably done to make a package like this 
(i.e. depending on third part software not available on CRAN) to be 
accepted? Or may be the current policy: all new package must 
automatically build. Period. In my case it can imply ~20 MB additional 
space (source code + libs).

Thanks in advance for any hint.
Serguei.

Submitter's comment: Dear CRAN team,

I submit package r2sundials which
   depends on a third part software
   from
https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials/cvodes
This
   is the reason for which it will not automatically
   build on your test systems. But on my side, I could
   successfully run 'R CMD check --as-cran' on Linux
   (R-3.6.1, gcc8), MacOS Catalina (R-3.6.1, Apple
   clang-1100.0.33.12) and Windows 10 (R-devel r77430,
   gcc-4.9.3). If you wish, I can send you reports from
   these runs. Even if it is improbable, but if you
   decide to run such checks manually by your self,
   installation instructions are available
   on
https://github.com/sgsokol/r2sundials

Moreover,
   winbuilder signals:
Possibly mis-spelled words in
   DESCRIPTION:
   CVODES (3:34)
   Hindmarsh (9:803)
   
   Rcpp (3:8, 9:285)
   al (9:816)
   cvodes (9:47)
   
   et (9:813)
   rmumps (9:501)
These all are false
   positives designating software, R packages and
   bibliographic reference.