[R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

[Jan Wijffels]

Dirk,

Thanks. I'll use this suggestion as well.

have a nice day,
Jan

Jan Wijffels
Statistician
www.bnosac.be  | +32 486 611708

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Monday 11 May 2020 15:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 11 May 2020 at 13:13, Joris Meys wrote:
> | To add to the suggestion of Gabor and Duncan, it might be a good idea to add a packageStartupMessage that warns the user about the problem when running on a 32bit system. You can easily extract that info from R.Version()$arch . That might help negotiating with CRAN.
>
> Related: As CRAN does not give you a hook, approximate one yourself in the
> package. I.e. demote reticulate to a mere Suggests:, then in .onAttach()
> check a) if it is present and howl if not as well as b) if on 32 bit and say
> you're sorry if so. Obviously, a real switch would be better but ...
>
> Dirk
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org