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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/03/2024 12:08 p.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
> My understanding is that the order of CRAN repos available in 
> `options("repos")` are tried sequentially. So if cran.r-rproject.org 
> <http://cran.r-rproject.org> is first, that will be tried. If the 
> package is not available there, the next repository will be tried.

I think that's correct, but as in the example below, the R-universe 
repos is usually listed first.

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

Is it really a release if the author doesn't know it happened?  I found 
out about "my" site dmurdoch.r-universe.dev today, but it seems to have 
existed for quite a while.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 11:56 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <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://raphaels1.r-universe.dev>',
>      >                                               
>     'https://cloud.r-project.org <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 <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 <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/
>     <https://github.com/RaphaelS1/survivalmodels/> .
>      >
>      > The other may even take a PR fixing this going forward.
>      >
>      > Dirk
>      >
> 
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