[R-pkg-devel] How to declare Bioconductor Dependencies in the Description File of my R Package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/05/2023 8:00 a.m., Ruff, Sergej wrote:
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> Also for the future - how Do i provide Bioconductor dependencies as "Imports" for a package that I want to submit to CRAN?

Just list it as you would a CRAN package.  The CRAN docs talk about 
"mainstream repositories"; I forget what the definition is of that 
(maybe repositories listed in `file.path(R.home(), 
"etc/repositories")`?), but definitely BioConductor is included.

> Do I need to make that also conditional? I know I should provide Installation description in a readme fiel but how do I make sure

No, you don't need to check.  If any imported package is not available, 
your package will not load, so errors will happen before you ever get to 
running examples.

> that the Bioconductor dependencies dont cause a rejection from CRAN?

Just make sure they exist on BioC and your code works with them.

Duncan Murdoch