[R-pkg-devel] Package Rejection Error Help

[Andrew Dhawan]

Thank you both very kindly - I have addressed both notes. I am still
wondering though about the RankProd dependency error - any insight into
this?

Thanks!
Andrew

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:58 AM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

>
>
> On 06.04.2021 17:39, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> > I had a similar problem with intepreting "notes" in pgirmess checks.
> > Some are lethal and lead to rejection and some not (just informative
> > comments). Fortunately Uwe has been kind enough to tell me what I missed
> > (I thought that all notes were just "informative").
> > Would it be possible to call lethal notes "errors" to keep us aware that
> > we must really do something with them and fix what is actually a problem?
>
> These are Notes as it may not be a serious issue or may be a false
> positive, nevertheless, we like to get clean packages to CRAN.
>
> WARNINGs and ERRORs will never be accepted.
>
> The policies clearly say that significant Notes have to be addressed.
> The only Note that is always acceptable is the CRAN maintainer Note
> about the package maintainer's address. All other Notes should be fixed
> generally or need manual attention in case of the really very few
> exceptions.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
> > Best,
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> > Le 06/04/2021 à 17:33, Uwe Ligges a écrit :
> >> Two Notes:
> >>
> >>
> >> Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
> >>  URL: http://imagemagick.org/script/download.php (moved to
> >> https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php)
> >>    From: inst/doc/vignette.html
> >>    Status: 200
> >>    Message: OK
> >>
> >>
> >> Please change http --> https, add trailing slashes, or follow moved
> >> content as appropriate.
> >>
> >> * checking LazyData ... NOTE
> >>  'LazyData' is specified without a 'data' directory
> >>
> >> Simply omit the field if you have no data.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Uwe Ligges
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06.04.2021 16:27, Andrew Dhawan wrote:
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I am a bit puzzled by this error for the sigQC package being uploaded
> to
> >>> CRAN. Checks on my end pass without issue. There is one error
> >>> regarding the
> >>> bioConductor dependency RankProd that comes up only on the Debian OS
> >>> when
> >>> checking. See here for further details:
> >>>
> https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/sigQC_0.1.22_20210406_110708/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure how to resolve this - it seems to me that the dependency
> >>> *should* be available across platforms, and short of removing the
> >>> dependency (which we rely on a fair bit), I'm not sure what  we can do.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts or suggestions would be massively appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you so kindly!
> >>> Andrew
> >>>
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