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[R-pkg-devel] Help for understanding CRAN rejection

2 messages · Matei Teleman, Ivan Krylov

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Matei Teleman
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Hello everyone,

I hope this email finds you well.

I?m sorry to bother you, it?s the very first time I?m submitting a package to CRAN.

Recently my submission got rejected with the following feedback:
Non-FOSS package license (file LICENSE)

   Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
     velocyto.R

   Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
     URL: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Seurat/index.html
       From: inst/doc/a_SuperCell.html
       Status: 200
       Message: OK
       CRAN URL not in canonical form

   The canonical URL of the CRAN page for a package is
     https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pkgname<https://cran.r-project.org/package=pkgname>


   Size of tarball: 9076436 bytes


Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64
Check: package dependencies, Result: NOTE
   Package suggested but not available for checking: ?velocyto.R'


The license we?re using is the standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and is listed among the accepted licenses for CRAN.

I fixed the URL issue but how can I make CRAN accept the package ?

Thank you advance for your time and your help !

Have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Matei Teleman
Ivan Krylov
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? Mon, 8 Jul 2024 15:12:24 +0000
Matei Teleman <matei.teleman at unil.ch> ?????:
Instead of putting the license text in a file inside the package (that
would have to match byte by byte in order to be recognised
automatically, or may be subtly different from the original with
potentially drastic legal consequences), use the name of the license
listed at [1]:

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

If you want to keep the full text of the license in your source code
repository, put it in a file that you exclude from the source package
using .Rbuildignore.

I'm assuming you've already seen the CC FAQ [2] that recommends against
using CC licenses for software and chose it because it offers
restrictions for commercial use and distribution of derivatives. Too
bad none of the other licenses at [1] offer the same kind of
restrictions.
Just making sure: have you provided the instructions for obtaining
velocyto.R in the 'Description' field of the DESCRIPTION file?