I think you should be using: Additional_repositories: https://github.com/mrdwab/SOfun
since that is the actual repository. Regards, Brian On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 17:01 +0100, LUCA BELMONTE wrote: > Good evening, > > I am trying to upload my package, called PdPDB 2.0. > When building and checking the package with R-studio with --as-cran > option > selected, everything looks ok but, once I tried to upload the package > to > CRAN I had the following reply: > > *"Strong dependencies not in mainstream repositories:* > * SOfun* > ** checking package namespace information ... OK* > ** checking package dependencies ... ERROR* > *Package required but not available: 'SOfun'"* > > I understand the issue it with SOfun that is a package I downloaded > and > installed from this github url: https://github.com/mrdwab/SOfun > > I came back to CARN policies and I have read: > > > *"Packages on which a CRAN package depends should be available from a > mainstream repository: if any mentioned in ‘Suggests’ or ‘Enhances’ > fields > are not from such a repository, where to obtain them at a repository > should > be specified in an ‘Additional_repositories’ field of the DESCRIPTION > file > (as a comma-separated list of repository URLs) or for other means of > access, described in the ‘Description’ field."* > > So, I updated the DESCRIPTION file as follows: > Additional_repositories: http://news.mrdwab.com/install_github.R > > Before to proceed to submission, I would like to know if this is the > right > way to proceed or I misinterpreted the submission procedure. > > Thank you for reading this email, > Best, > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
