[R-pkg-devel] Questions regarding a new (seperated package) and how to submit them to cran

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Bernd,

You could contact the maintainer of the spatstat package. They did the same
thing (splitting a large package into several smaller ones) a few years ago.

Having the base package suggesting an add-on and the add-on depending on or
suggesting the base package might create an unwanted loop.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Op vr 23 jun 2023 om 06:52 schreef Simon Urbanek <
simon.urbanek using r-project.org>:

> Bernd,
>
> the sequence in which you submit doesn't matter - the packages have to
> work regardless of the sequence. Suggests means that the dependency is
> optional, not that it can break tests. You have to skip the tests that
> cannot be run due to missing dependencies (see 1.1.3.1 in R-exts)
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
> > On Jun 23, 2023, at 2:35 PM, Bernd.Gruber <Bernd.Gruber using canberra.edu.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question regarding the separation of a package into smaller
> pieces (to avoid long testing/installation times and more important to
> avoid to many dependencies)
> >
> > I am the maintainer of an R package (dartR) which has grown and is now
> at the limit in terms of testing/run time and also dependencies. To further
> develop the package we started to break the package into smaller packages
> namely
> >
> >
> > Two core packages (dartR.base and dartR.data) and here dartR.base has
> dartR.data in the depends. (dartR.base is 60% of the previous package) and
> dartR.data is our data.package for test data (dartR.data is already on CRAN)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Next to the two core packages we also have 3 more addon packages that
> deal with specialised analysis
> >
> > dartR.sim
> > dartR.spatial
> > dartR.popgenomics.
> >
> > Those packages depend on dartR.base and dartR.data.
> >
> > All addon packages and core packages should have the other addon
> packages as suggests, hence here comes the question.
> >
> >
> > How do I submit the packages?  All of them at once? Or step by step.
> >
> > If I submit step by step (e.g. dartR.base) it obviously cannot have the
> other dartR addon packages as suggests (cannot be tested and will break the
> CRAN tests).
> >
> > So would be the correct way to:
> > Submit dartR.base (without dartR.sim, dartR.spatial and
> dartR.popgenomics in the suggest.)
> > Then submit dartR.sim, then dartR.spatial and finally dartR.popgenomics
> (all without suggests of the other packages)
> >
> > And finally update all packages (only their description file and add the
> suggests once they are on CRAN).
> >
> > Hope that makes sense and thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bernd
> >
>
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