[R-pkg-devel] Seamless way for a CRAN-bound package to depend on a Bioconductor package?
Dear All, There is a Bioconductor package (S4Vectors) whose functionality I want to use in one of my packages, which I usually submit to CRAN. At this time, install.packages() does not automatically fetch dependencies from Bioconductor as far as I can tell, though it can be told to do so via setRepostitory(). Is there any way to make it more seamless for the end-user? I know that there is the 'Additional_repositories:' setting, but I think that's for R CMD check only: although devtools::install() understands it and the 'biocView:' setting, install.packages() does not. Another option might be to make it a Suggested package and then force its installation (if necessary) and loading in the .onLoad() function of my package, but it's not clear whether that's CRAN-appropriate behaviour. Thanks in advance, Pavel
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