On 22 May 2015 at 13:20, Peter Meissner via R-package-devel wrote:
| I would like to submit a package to CRAN but I also want to use two
| non-mainstream packages in my vignette. Currently I have them stated
in my
| Suggests field but that leads to CRAN/Check complaints -understandably
| since they cannot be obtained by install.packages().
|
| I know, that there is the 'Additional_repositories' field for the
| DESCRIPTION file but as the name (and the CRAN policies) say this is
for
| CRAN-like repositories and those two packages (AnomalyDetection,
| BreakoutDetection) are on GitHub (e.g.
| https://github.com/twitter/AnomalyDetection).
|
| Should I simply leave them out of the Suggests - that will lead to
| complaints about non-stated dependencies in vignette.
|
| Should I fake my vignette code so that the troubling part is actually
not
| run when building the vignette - that gives me headaches.
|
| Is there some other, clean way ?
That is an excellent question that I have no answer to.
It so happens that I did put both of these packages (AnomalyDetection,
BreakoutDetection) into the 'ghrr' repository created by my drat package
[1].
So I can install these packages fine as there is now a repo. What I
have not
done is tried to convince CRAN that such a non-CRAN, non-BioC,
non-Omegahat
repo passes the implicit test set up by 'Additional_repositories'.
And to the best of my knowledge, nobody else has. So that is really a
CRAN
question. [2]
Dirk
[1] I have posted / blogged a few times about drat. It basically sits on
top
of install.packages() / update.packages() by providing repositories --
which
are super-easy to setup and host at GitHub via their built-in gh-pages
webserver. See http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/drat.html as well as
the
http://ghrr.github.io/drat pages for starting points, or ask me off-list.
[2] So the list is zero days old and already stalled. Wow. ;-)