[R-pkg-devel] r2sundials submission failure

Hi Satya,

Le 16/12/2019 ? 14:52, Satyaprakash Nayak a ?crit?:
Hi Serguei

I apply a similar approach to include the Sundials source code as a part 
of my package (sundialr, on CRAN) which provides an interface for Cvode 
and Cvodes. I didn?t have an issue with the files sizes while submitting 
to CRAN
Good to hear :)
and you can take a look to see if the code would be helpful to you.

https://github.com/sn248/sundialr
I see that you include v4.0.1 of sundials while I included a more recent 
release 5.0.0:
https://github.com/sgsokol/r2sundials

But I think, in the end, the library size must be close to each other.
Although, it would be great if sundials is installed on CRAN machines 
and static libraries for Windows are provided in rtools 4.0
It could be a good thing in general but the end user on other platforms 
will have to install it anyway. Moreover, I see you kept the default 
size for index type:

SUNDIALS_INDEX_TYPE int64_t

while I defined it to int32_t.
It shows that it's hard to satisfy all the tastes in the wild with only 
one library distrubution ;)

Best,
Serguei.
Satya

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 03:54, Serguei Sokol <serguei.sokol at gmail.com 
<mailto:serguei.sokol at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Le 15/12/2019 ? 17:59, Uwe Ligges a ?crit?:
     > Have you tried to write to CRAN at ... and ask if thirs party
    software can
     > be installed on CRAN?
    No, I didn't. I presumed that CRAN team had other things to do than to
    install any soft that package authors could need. But if this is an
    option, I will try this approach next time. For this one, I
    integrated a
    subset of sundials soft in the package and it turned out to be far less
    then 20 MB (which is the size I had on my system for the whole set of
    cvodes library and its dependencies). The tarball is only 270 KB and
    compiled libraries on some systems can be up to 7 MB and far less on
    others (e.g. on my linux, compiled without "-g" flag, the whole size of
    $RHOME/library/r2sundial is under 2 MB). Just now, it is pending a
    manual inspection. I hope that library size will not be a problem.

    Anyway, I appreciate the hint. Thanks.
    Best,
    Serguei.

     >
     > Best,
     > Uwe Ligges
     >
     > On 11.12.2019 10:39, Serguei Sokol wrote:
     >> Hi,
     >>
     >> I have tried to submit my new package
     >> https://github.com/sgsokol/r2sundials to CRAN but submission
    seems to
     >> be dismissed.
     >> The package needs a third part software
     >> https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials/cvodes so it cannot be
     >> built on CRAN automatically. I explained this (and how the
    package was
     >> tested by myself) in the submitter's comment (cf. hereafter) and
     >> second time in the reply to all (as was requested) to automatic
     >> message from CRAN announcing the building failure but to no
    avail. The
     >> submission was done on November 25, more than two weeks later I
    still
     >> don't have any response and the package is no more in incoming/
    dir on
     >> cran ftp site. I conclude that this submission is dismissed.
     >>
     >> My question is: what can be reasonably done to make a package like
     >> this (i.e. depending on third part software not available on
    CRAN) to
     >> be accepted? Or may be the current policy: all new package must
     >> automatically build. Period. In my case it can imply ~20 MB
    additional
     >> space (source code + libs).
     >>
     >> Thanks in advance for any hint.
     >> Serguei.
     >>
     >> Submitter's comment: Dear CRAN team,
     >>
     >> I submit package r2sundials which
     >> ?? depends on a third part software
     >> ?? from
     >> https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials/cvodes
     >> This
     >> ?? is the reason for which it will not automatically
     >> ?? build on your test systems. But on my side, I could
     >> ?? successfully run 'R CMD check --as-cran' on Linux
     >> ?? (R-3.6.1, gcc8), MacOS Catalina (R-3.6.1, Apple
     >> ?? clang-1100.0.33.12) and Windows 10 (R-devel r77430,
     >> ?? gcc-4.9.3). If you wish, I can send you reports from
     >> ?? these runs. Even if it is improbable, but if you
     >> ?? decide to run such checks manually by your self,
     >> ?? installation instructions are available
     >> ?? on
     >> https://github.com/sgsokol/r2sundials
     >>
     >> Moreover,
     >> ?? winbuilder signals:
     >> Possibly mis-spelled words in
     >> ?? DESCRIPTION:
     >> ?? CVODES (3:34)
     >> ?? Hindmarsh (9:803)
     >> ?? Rcpp (3:8, 9:285)
     >> ?? al (9:816)
     >> ?? cvodes (9:47)
     >> ?? et (9:813)
     >> ?? rmumps (9:501)
     >> These all are false
     >> ?? positives designating software, R packages and
     >> ?? bibliographic reference.
     >>
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