[R-pkg-devel] Problem with "additional repository".

[Uwe Ligges]

Certainly there was more in the output that caused rejection as the 
stuff you describe below seems to be fine.
I do not know which package this refers to, so cannot easily look.

Best,
Uwe

On 16.10.2023 11:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Whoops, I just read the next line.  Sorry!
> 
> On 15/10/2023 9:34 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> I have submitted a new package to CRAN, and this package has been
>> knocked back on the basis of a NOTE:
>>
>>> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE
>>> Package suggested but not available for checking: 'ionChannelData'
>>
>> This suggested package consists of data sets, the size of which is too
>> large to satisfy CRAN's constraints. I put this package in a repository
>> on github, from which it can be accessed by users.
>>
>> My DESCRIPTION file contains the line:
>>
>>> Additional_repositories: https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev
>>
>> The given URL seems to work, in that users can indeed load the
>> ionChannelData package via the command
>>
>>> install.packages("ionChannelData",repos="https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev")
>>
>> I was under the impression that this was all that I needed to do.  The
>> CRAN checking process acknowledges the existence of the repository in
>> question:
>>
>>> Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
>>>    ionChannelData
>>> Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
>>>    ionChannelData   yes   https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev
> >
>> So CRAN knows about this repository.  Why can it not make use of it?
>>
>> What can/should I do to resolve this problem?
>>
>> I guess I could simply *not* Suggest ionChannelData.  But what then, is
>> the point of the option of including an Additional_repositories field in
>> the DESCRIPTION file?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
> 
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