Alex (et al), Yihui is currently working towards a CRAN release for a modern version of DT, so sometime "soon" (I have no insight into what definition of soon is in use here) things should work in your particular case.
~G On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Martin Morgan < martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > On 08/05/2016 01:55 PM, Alex Pickering wrote: > >> My package requires a version of 'DT' that's only available on github. I >> tried following the answer to this SO >> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30493388/create-an-r- >> package-that-depends-on-another-r-package-located-on-github> >> (specifying 'Remotes' in the DESCRIPTION in addition to the version needed >> in 'Imports'). Build failed with "Package required and available but >> unsuitable version: 'DT'". How should this be handled? Thank you, >> > > Packages must be on CRAN or Bioconductor; the rationale is that these > represent stable, tested, and somehow mature packages, rather than an > arbitrary package of unknown stability. The StackOverflow question is a > solution for devtools, but biocLite() uses install.packages(). > > Martin > > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or...{{dropped:2}} > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- Gabriel Becker, Ph.D Associate Scientist Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genentech Research [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
