On 28 July 2017 at 12:42, Pavel Krivitsky wrote:
| Dear All,
|
| There is a Bioconductor package (S4Vectors) whose functionality I want
| to use in one of my packages, which I usually submit to CRAN.
|
| At this time, install.packages() does not automatically fetch
| dependencies from Bioconductor as far as I can tell, though it can be
| told to do so via setRepostitory().
|
| Is there any way to make it more seamless for the end-user?
It's there all along, see from the sources (and sorry for the linewrap):
edd@bud:~/svn/r-devel$ cat etc/repositories
## The fields here are tab-delimited: there is a row name
## menu_name is the name to be used in setRepositories()
## URL is the base URL (see R-admin.texi)
## default is whether this should be a default choice
## source, win.binary, mac.binary indicate if the corresponding type is
present
##
## BioC entries are version-specific, with %v getting expanded to the
## BioC version associated with the current R version.
## Also, %bm is substituted from the setting of getOption("BioC_mirror")
##
menu_name URL default source win.binary mac.binary
CRAN CRAN @CRAN@ TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
BioCsoft "BioC software" %bm/packages/%v/bioc FALSE TRUE TRUE
TRUE
BioCann "BioC annotation" %bm/packages/%v/data/annotation FALSE TRUE
TRUE TRUE
BioCexp "BioC experiment" %bm/packages/%v/data/experiment FALSE TRUE
TRUE TRUE
BioCextra "BioC extra" %bm/packages/%v/extra FALSE TRUE TRUE
TRUE
CRANextra CRAN (extras) https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin FALSE
TRUE TRUE TRUE
Omegahat Omegahat http://www.omegahat.net/R FALSE TRUE
FALSE FALSE
R-Forge R-Forge https://R-Forge.R-project.org FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE
rforge.net rforge.net https://www.rforge.net FALSE TRUE TRUE
TRUE
edd@bud:~/svn/r-devel$
But you simply cannot ensure that users have it enabled.
| I know that there is the 'Additional_repositories:' setting, but I
| think that's for R CMD check only: although devtools::install()
| understands it and the 'biocView:' setting, install.packages() does
| not.
You can use that for suggsted packages, see Anderson and Eddelbuettel in the
current issue of the R Journal for more.
| Another option might be to make it a Suggested package and then force
| its installation (if necessary) and loading in the .onLoad() function
| of my package, but it's not clear whether that's CRAN-appropriate
| behaviour.
I'd say it is not.
Dirk
|
| Thanks in advance,
| Pavel
|
|
|
|
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