Laurent, I'd argue quite strongly against this from a systems perspective. Your package wouldn't be installable via biocLite. That function can see github repos, but only when told to and not as dependencies AFAIK. A package passing but being uninstsllable would be a Very Bad Thing (tm) IMHO.
You do have my sympathies though, I'm blocked by a gh only patch in BatchJobs and have been for months. Best, ~G On Mar 10, 2016 4:22 PM, "Laurent Gatto" <lg...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear all, > > There have been some substantial changes in Rstudio's DT package > recently [1], in particular with respect to selecting rows in a > table. One problem is that these updates currently only live on github > (version 0.1.45) while CRAN is stuck at version 0.1 since September > 2015. This has been reported in an issue [2] in October 2015, but it is > not clear when these updates will be pushed to CRAN. > > One of my packages [3] currently fails because of this unmet > dependency. I believe that others (well, at least one Bioc developer) is > also waiting for an update. I was wondering if upgrading to the github > version on the Bioconductor build servers would be considered - while I > haven't done any systematic tests, I have not experienced any backwards > incompatibilities. > > Best wishes, > > Laurent > > [1] https://github.com/rstudio/DT > [2] https://github.com/rstudio/DT/issues/191 > [3] http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/pRolocGUI/ > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
