[R-pkg-devel] r2sundials submission failure

[Serguei Sokol]

Le 15/12/2019 à 17:59, Uwe Ligges a écrit :
> Have you tried to write to CRAN using ... and ask if thirs party software can 
> be installed on CRAN?
No, I didn't. I presumed that CRAN team had other things to do than to 
install any soft that package authors could need. But if this is an 
option, I will try this approach next time. For this one, I integrated a 
subset of sundials soft in the package and it turned out to be far less 
then 20 MB (which is the size I had on my system for the whole set of 
cvodes library and its dependencies). The tarball is only 270 KB and 
compiled libraries on some systems can be up to 7 MB and far less on 
others (e.g. on my linux, compiled without "-g" flag, the whole size of 
$RHOME/library/r2sundial is under 2 MB). Just now, it is pending a 
manual inspection. I hope that library size will not be a problem.

Anyway, I appreciate the hint. Thanks.
Best,
Serguei.

> 
> 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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