[R-pkg-devel] r2sundials submission failure

[Uwe Ligges]

Have you tried to write to CRAN using ... and ask if thirs party software can 
be installed on CRAN?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 11.12.2019 10:39, Serguei Sokol wrote:
> 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.
> 
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