Hi Ege Thank you for your answer.
I also think it won't be easy to build it in my package. The hint with the description file is a good one. Does that get read automatically? So far, I had the following line 'SystemRequirements: GNU Scientific Library version >= 2.5' (at that time I was not aware that it needs only version 2.3). Of course my package got rejected on CRAN when I tried to upload it. I can imagine that they all don't have much time. That means I can only wait and see what happens. Maybe at some point I will try to upload the package with a kind message, as you suggested. Thank you very much for all the hints. Best wishes Raphael On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:54:00 +0200 Ege Rubak <ru...@math.aau.dk> wrote: >Hi, > >It may be a big task to ship all of GSL with your R package, and since >it is a large standard library which is "easy" to install on most >systems, I doubt that it's worth the effort. I would recommend putting >`GSL (>=2.3)` in `SystemRequirements` in your DESCRIPTION file. > >As you point out, this requires that the CRAN team can find the time >to update GSL on their machines. Uwe often sees things on this list, >so you may be lucky that he replies directly when he has time (the >CRAN people tend to have busy day jobs also). > >If you don't hear anything on this list in the near future you could >also try to submit your package to CRAN with the message that you are >aware that it fails on their Windows machines due to an old version of >GSL which you would like to be updated if possible. If done in a >respectful manner I think this should be OK and not wasting their >time, but others on this list may have better suggestions of how to >approach this issue. > >Best wishes, >Ege > >On 11/09/2019 11.49, Raphael Hartmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I hope you don't mind me asking again: >> Does anybody have an idea on how to implement the whole GSL library >in >> my package? I was not able to find sth. on Google. >> >> Whom should I contact for asking whether it is possible to update >GSL >> for Windows on CRAN? There were no warnings or errors in the CRAN >> checks for debian. For Windows on CRAN, the compiler gives only an >> error where a GSL routine of version 2.3 is used. >> >> Best wishes >> Raphael >> >> >> >> On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 08:19:37 +0200 >> "Raphael Hartmann" <raphael.hartm...@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I developed an R package that requires at least version 2.3 of GSL >>> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/). The newest version is 2.6. >>> >>> Version 2.3 is now available for over two years, and I was >wondering >>> whether it was possible to update GSL on the win-builder? I would >>> really appreciate it. Without it my package will be rejected on >CRAN. >>> >>> Or is there an option to include the whole GSL library in the >package? >>> >>> On my machines (two debian based and one Windows server 16 and one >>> Windows 10) the package passes the checks of "R CMD check >--as-cran". >>> On builder.r-hub.io with Windows server 12 it is also successful. >>> >>> I would be glad for any advice / suggestions / hints. >>> >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Raphael >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg >> Institute of Psychology, Cognition, Action, and Sustainability >> Engelbergerstrasse 41 >> D-79085 Freiburg >> Phone: +49 761 203 2465 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > >______________________________________________ >R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -------------------------------------------------------------- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Institute of Psychology, Cognition, Action, and Sustainability Engelbergerstrasse 41 D-79085 Freiburg Phone: +49 761 203 2465 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
