Message-ID: <14094729.c4fSE1VY0n@yrla>
Date: 2018-02-25T13:20:32Z
From: meik michalke
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] How to (conditionally) use an archived package (without Suggests)?
In-Reply-To: <23186.44456.424091.706602@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
Am Sonntag, 25. Februar 2018, 06:35:52 CET schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 25 February 2018 at 11:51, meik michalke wrote:
> | 'Additional_repositories' is meant for R package repositories, it won't
> | work with source code git repos. if a package is in 'Suggests' and can't
> | be found
> You missed the part where we create packages ("R CMD build") out of source
> repos, and then place those packages in package repos. That is what drat is
> for.
maybe you missed the part where the OP tried to use
https://github.com/waddella/loon in 'Additional_repositories'? AFAIK you can't
use a simple git source code repository of a package.
i'm maintaining various alternative repos myself ( https://reaktanz.de/R/ ;
https://files.kde.org/rkward/R/ ; https://undocumeantit.github.io/repos/l10n/
) using roxyPackage instead of drat.
> And with Additional_repositories, it plays with the install.packages() and
> update.packages() functions just as it should -- because package dependency
> resolution is a powerful mechanism we like to use whereever possible.
do you mean that a dependency is automatically fetched and installed from an
*alternative* repo configured via 'Additional_repositories'? i didn't get that
to work. i only ever managed CRAN to see that the package is there during
checks, but not install it.
take the 'sylly' package:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=sylly
it has
Additional_repositories: https://undocumeantit.github.io/repos/l10n
in its DESCRIPTION and suggests 'sylly.de', 'sylly.en', and 'sylly.es'. but
when i run
install.packages("sylly", dependencies=TRUE)
i get:
Warning: dependencies ?testthat?, ?sylly.de?, ?sylly.en?, ?sylly.es? are not
available
am i missing something?
viele gr??e :: m.eik
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