[R-pkg-devel] Help in getting past CRAN submission rejections

[Balasubramanian Narasimhan]

Just to close the loop on this: the drat suggestion for both packages 
and also moving things to enhances worked. I could do this also for 
Gurobi because it is LGPL'd. Thanks Toby and Dirk (for drat).

-Naras

On 9/9/20 5:16 PM, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote:
> Thanks Toby, so there is hope.  The drat suggestion for rcbc is worth a
> try, gurobi is noted as you recommend.
>
> -Naras
>
> On 9/9/20 4:38 PM, Toby Hocking wrote:
>> Hi Naras
>> I had a similar issue recently with
>> https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/nc/ --- it Suggests: re2r
>> which is a package that is no longer on CRAN, but available on github.
>> To solve the issue I just copied the re2r into a drat repo, which is a
>> CRAN-like repository hosted on github. More info on drat here
>> http://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/DratForPackageAuthors.html So if
>> those solver packages you have in Suggests are open-source, you can
>> just copy them to your drat repo, and list that drat repo in
>> Additional_repositories. If they aren't open-source then you should
>> provide a description of how to obtain those packages in Description.
>> Something like "gurobi package is not available in any public
>> open-source repositories but can be downloaded for academic use free
>> of charge from $GUROBI_URL"
>> BTW thanks for your efforts in getting CVXR on CRAN, that is really
>> important work!
>> Toby
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:40 AM Balasubramanian Narasimhan
>> <naras using stanford.edu <mailto:naras using stanford.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>      We've been struggling to get past CRAN's rejections for a new
>>      upload of
>>      CVXR.  The new version makes essentially one change to the existing
>>      version on CRAN: the addition of a DOI to an article to appear in
>>      JSS.
>>      We realize that CRAN may tighten policies in the meantime forcing
>>      some
>>      changes to be made, which we are happy to do. But we are not sure
>>      what.
>>
>>      The automated check
>>      <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/CVXR_1.0-6_20200908_223033/>
>>
>>      came back with 2 notes on Debian and Windows, both addressed in
>>      replies
>>      and submission comments. (Solaris failures are expected, also noted.)
>>
>>      The communications with CRAN indicates that the problem might be that
>>      our package (the current version too) _suggests_ solvers not
>>      available
>>      on CRAN. These are either on github or on vendor websites (free to
>>      academics after login).  One reply from CRAN suggested that we either
>>      use the "Additional_repositories" field or provide some text in
>>      Description. The former is not applicable---these are not CRAN-like
>>      repositories---so we added text in the description with URL links.
>>
>>      What could we be missing?
>>
>>      Thanks.
>>
>>      -Naras
>>
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