On 05.06.2021 01:47, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 4 June 2021 at 16:21, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote: | Suggests" would trigger an attempt to install gurobi, which is not on CRAN. To my understanding that is not the case. It would only do so if and when install.packages() is asked to also install packages in Suggests:. And point of Suggests: is that that is not automagic. I actually Suggests, together with Additional_Repositories: (for which Noah may have to set the repo up, I have not checked if gurobi has one) may be the correct call.
That would indeed be ideal. As far as I know there is not CRAN-like repo with gurobi. Following the CRAN policies you can exolain in the Description field of the DESCRIPTION file how to get that package to your users.
Best, Uwe Ligges
Dirk
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