Hi Naras I had a similar issue recently with https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/nc/ --- it Suggests: re2r which is a package that is no longer on CRAN, but available on github. To solve the issue I just copied the re2r into a drat repo, which is a CRAN-like repository hosted on github. More info on drat here http://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/DratForPackageAuthors.html So if those solver packages you have in Suggests are open-source, you can just copy them to your drat repo, and list that drat repo in Additional_repositories. If they aren't open-source then you should provide a description of how to obtain those packages in Description. Something like "gurobi package is not available in any public open-source repositories but can be downloaded for academic use free of charge from $GUROBI_URL" BTW thanks for your efforts in getting CVXR on CRAN, that is really important work! Toby
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:40 AM Balasubramanian Narasimhan < na...@stanford.edu> wrote: > We've been struggling to get past CRAN's rejections for a new upload of > CVXR. The new version makes essentially one change to the existing > version on CRAN: the addition of a DOI to an article to appear in JSS. > We realize that CRAN may tighten policies in the meantime forcing some > changes to be made, which we are happy to do. But we are not sure what. > > The automated check > < > https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/CVXR_1.0-6_20200908_223033/> > > came back with 2 notes on Debian and Windows, both addressed in replies > and submission comments. (Solaris failures are expected, also noted.) > > The communications with CRAN indicates that the problem might be that > our package (the current version too) _suggests_ solvers not available > on CRAN. These are either on github or on vendor websites (free to > academics after login). One reply from CRAN suggested that we either > use the "Additional_repositories" field or provide some text in > Description. The former is not applicable---these are not CRAN-like > repositories---so we added text in the description with URL links. > > What could we be missing? > > Thanks. > > -Naras > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
