Just to close the loop on this: the drat suggestion for both packages
and also moving things to enhances worked. I could do this also for
Gurobi because it is LGPL'd. Thanks Toby and Dirk (for drat).
-Naras
On 9/9/20 5:16 PM, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote:
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
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