Message-ID: <20231016143457.4e9abf93@rolf-Latitude-E7470>
Date: 2023-10-16T01:34:57Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Problem with "additional repository".
I have submitted a new package to CRAN, and this package has been
knocked back on the basis of a NOTE:
> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE
> Package suggested but not available for checking: 'ionChannelData'
This suggested package consists of data sets, the size of which is too
large to satisfy CRAN's constraints. I put this package in a repository
on github, from which it can be accessed by users.
My DESCRIPTION file contains the line:
> Additional_repositories: https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev
The given URL seems to work, in that users can indeed load the
ionChannelData package via the command
> install.packages("ionChannelData",repos="https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev")
I was under the impression that this was all that I needed to do. The
CRAN checking process acknowledges the existence of the repository in
question:
> Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
> ionChannelData
> Availability using Additional_repositories specification:
> ionChannelData yes https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev
So CRAN knows about this repository. Why can it not make use of it?
What can/should I do to resolve this problem?
I guess I could simply *not* Suggest ionChannelData. But what then, is
the point of the option of including an Additional_repositories field in
the DESCRIPTION file?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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