[R-pkg-devel] Problem with "additional repository".
On 15/10/2023 9:34 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
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
Is that web site set up as a repository? My impression was that it
needed to be, so people could do
install.packages("ionChannelData", repos =
"https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev")
You can use the "drat" package to set up a tiny repository quickly.
Duncan
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