[Bioc-devel] R package with using rjava and java libraries exceeding the allowed size limit

Hi all,

I?m developing a package that uses some java libraries through rJava. The
java libraries that I have compiled from source to create a single jar file
with dependencies (size 85M) that exceeds the maximum size allowed for
bioconductor packages. I noticed that in CRAN there is another package
OpenNLP https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openNLP/index.html using
rJava where the JAR files are imported through a data package
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openNLPdata/index.html. Do you
think it is possible to use a similar approach for a Bioconductor package?

I'm not sure what the motivation was for creating a separate package for 
the openNLP files; maybe licensing, attribution, or other 
considerations. From the Bioconductor perspective it would make no 
difference -- you'd be adding large binary files (the openNLP files are 
7MB) to our svn repository, nightly builds, and external repositories 
and the mirrors that various organizations have established.

I think you should critically assess whether the files you include in 
the jar are actually necessary for the functionality you use, and that 
the files are licensed appropriately for binary distribution.

What will your package do?

Martin Morgan

Have you any idea about possible alternatives? Thanks in advance,


Eugenia

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