Dear Brian, Dear Uwe, Thank you for your replies.
I wrote a function that does the same stuff that the suggested package does. Now there are no reference to suggested packages. Best, Luca 2017-11-08 18:03 GMT+01:00 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: > And even this cannot work for strong dependencies, as sztrong deendencies > must be available from mainstream repositoreis. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > On 08.11.2017 17:59, Brian G. Peterson wrote: > >> 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 >> >> -- Luca Belmonte, PhD Dept. Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Mobile: +39 328 45 81 762 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
