[Bioc-devel] support the stable version of R

Martin,
Having said that, I'll note that specifying R as a dependency, and a
version of R as a criterion for your package, is really a mis-nomer for a
Bioconductor package -- of course it uses R, and the version of R in use
determines the Bioconductor version(s) that can be used! So a rational
change is to remove R and its version requirement from the DESCRIPTION file
entirely, a strategy taken by I think about 400 of our 1650+ packages.

Oh, it's actually an option not to include an R dependency at all. I find
it non-obvious, given the warning message that suggest to change the
version dependency to R-devel, not mentioning that omitting dependency will
fix the warning too. Should it be put somewhere in BiocCheck message?

Also, given that, I find it even more strange to have such R requirement in
BiocCheck. You are either allowed very strict dependency: R >= R-devel or
very lenient (not specifying any), but nothing in the middle.

Best,
Alexey

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 3:03 AM Martin Morgan <mtmorgan.bioc at gmail.com>
wrote:
Maybe a little more helpfully, I think you should create a branch for
'before' Bioconductor, where you can specify R version dependency as you
see fit.

Indeed, at each release the version of your package at
git.bioconductor.org will have a branch created for that release, e.g.,
the RELEASE_3_8 branch, and you will want to sync that branch with your
github repository as outlined in step 10 of
https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/sync-existing-repositories/
.

A conscientious developer would take the opportunity to increment the
version dependency of R in the master branch to the version of R in use in
the devel builds of Bioconductor.

Martin

?On 1/14/19, 5:40 PM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Lulu Chen" <
bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of luluchen at vt.edu> wrote:

    Dear all,

    When submitting package to bioconductor, it is required to change R
version
    in "Depends" to be >= the develop version (3.6) . As my package is also
    available in GitHub, someone asks if it be possible to make it
available
    with the stable version of R (R3.5). In fact, my package can work well
with
    R3.5 if I change "Depends" back to R(>=3.5) .

    So I hope to support R3.5 for the moment before next release. Should I
    create another repository? Can I use a branch to support R3.5?

    Thanks,
    Lulu

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