[R-pkg-devel] Suggesting an archived package in the DESCRIPTION file

[Josiah Parry]

My understanding is that the order of CRAN repos available in
`options("repos")` are tried sequentially. So if cran.r-rproject.org is
first, that will be tried. If the package is not available there, the next
repository will be tried.

I do appreciate the ease of release to R-universe quite a bit particularly
because you don’t need to vendor rust deps.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:56 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 05/03/2024 8:02 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > On 5 March 2024 at 06:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > | You could make a compatible version of `survivalmodels` available on a
> > | non-CRAN website, and refer to that website in the
> > | Additional_repositories field of DESCRIPTION.
> >
> > Every r-universe sub-site fits that requirement. For this package
> Google's
> > first hit was https://raphaels1.r-universe.dev/survivalmodels and it
> carries
> > the same line on install.packages() that Jeroen adds to every page:
> >
> >   install.packages('survivalmodels', repos = c('
> https://raphaels1.r-universe.dev',
> >                                                '
> https://cloud.r-project.org'))
>
> I have mixed feelings about r-universe.  On the one hand, it is really
> nicely put together, and it offers the service described above.  On the
> other, it's probably a bad idea to follow its advice and use
> install.packages() with `repos` as shown:  that will install development
> versions of packages, not releases.
>
> Do you know if it's possible for a package to suggest the CRAN version
> first, with an option like the above only offered as a pre-release option?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> >
> > So doing all three of
> > - adding a line 'Additional_repositories:
> https://raphaels1.r-universe.dev'
> > - adding a 'Suggests: survivalmodels;
> > - ensuring conditional use only as Suggests != Depends
> > should do.
> >
> > | It would be best if you fixed whatever issue caused survivalmodels to
> be
> > | archived when you do this.
> > |
> > | Looking here:
> > |
> https://cran-archive.r-project.org/web/checks/2024/2024-03-02_check_results_survivalmodels.html
> > | that appears very easy to do.  The source is here:
> > | https://github.com/RaphaelS1/survivalmodels/ .
> >
> > The other may even take a PR fixing this going forward.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
>
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