Thanks Toby, so there is hope. The drat suggestion for rcbc is worth a try, gurobi is noted as you recommend.
-Naras On 9/9/20 4:38 PM, Toby Hocking wrote: > 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 <mailto: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 > <mailto: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
