[R-pkg-devel] Package Rejection Error Help

[Andrew Dhawan]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for replying! I already had the biocViews: line on my description
file - it seems it must be something else contributing to the issue.

Andrew

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 13:26 Robert M. Flight <rflight79 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> I think if you want to include a Bioconductor dependency, then I think you
> add the "biocViews:" line to your description file to enable bioconductor
> package installation.
>
> See this answer on Bioinformatics stackexchange:
> https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/a/3375/51
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> -Robert
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM Andrew Dhawan <adhawan using qmed.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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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