Gabor/Joris, Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try it out and see if it reaches the CRAN servers.
best, Jan Jan Wijffels Statistician www.bnosac.be | +32 486 611708 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday 11 May 2020 15:13, Joris Meys <joris.m...@ugent.be> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > To add to the suggestion of Gabor and Duncan, it might be a good idea to add > a packageStartupMessage that warns the user about the problem when running on > a 32bit system. You can easily extract that info from R.Version()$arch . That > might help negotiating with CRAN. > > Kind regards > Joris > > Joris Meys > Statistician > T +32 9 264 61 79 > > Department Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling > > Campus Coupure, Block A 1st floor 110.050, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Ghent, > Belgium > T administration office +32 9 264 59 32 > > www.ugent.be > > e-maildisclaimer > > From: R-package-devel r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of Jan > Wijffels jwijff...@bnosac.be > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 2:46 PM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit > on CRAN > > Duncan, > > Thanks for the reply. Let me make this more clear. > The R package reticulate works on 32bit and 64bit. My golgotha package > depends on reticulate and an extra Python package called torch which is not > available for 32bit platforms. This is specified in the DESCRIPTION file at > https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L17 > > For that reason R CMD check will fail on CRAN for 32bit. Hence my question. > How do I specify this in the package such that I can distribute it on CRAN. > > best, > Jan > > Jan Wijffels > Statistician > www.bnosac.be | +32 486 611708 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday 11 May 2020 14:39, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 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 > > 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
