On 11/05/2020 7:54 a.m., Jan Wijffels wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a package which I would like to host on CRAN. The package is at
https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha
The package only builds on 64bit however because the package uses R package
reticulate which requires a python library called torch which does not build on
32 bit platforms.
So installation only works using INSTALL_opts = "--no-multiarch"
How do you specify this to the CRAN maintainers that this is the way it should
be set up on CRAN such that it only is built for 64bit systems.
I don't see how your package has any 32 bit dependence, since it has no
src directory. It's probably sufficient to declare the dependency on
reticulate, which indirectly implies the 32 bit dependence. But if
reticulate works on 32 bit systems as long as users don't need "torch",
then just state that.
One thing I'd recommend: you should try to change the dependency from
Depends to Imports. If there are a few reticulate functions that you
want your users to have access to, you can import them and re-export
them so they're available from your package as well.
Duncan
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