Sorry, I have misread Ivan's message. I understand more about this particular case now. Thanks for your clarification.
Regards, Shu Fai On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > Ivan explained this already, but as you asked again, I will repeat > Ivan's message: > you do not need to specify version requirements if your package can live > with older versions of the package you depend on. Then users on old > versions of R can use your package with an older version of OpenMX. > > And even if you depend on a newer version of OpenMx, then that is fine > as install.packages() finds out on older versions of R that neither the > required version OpenMx is not installable nor your package. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > On 29.06.2025 10:49, Shu Fai Cheung wrote: > > Thanks a lot! Yes, the specific package I encountered that problem is > > semptools. I didn't specify that (I should have, sorry for that) > > because I am also curious about what we should do in this kind of case > > in general. > > > > Even if the package could somehow pass the CRAN checks without > > changing the version of R it depends on, is it recommended to change > > the version that semptools depends on to R 4.5.0 because OpenMx has > > this requirement? If yes, I would do > > so to meet CRAN requirements. > > > > Regards, > > Shu Fai > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM Ivan Krylov <ikry...@disroot.org> wrote: > >> > >> В Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:56:36 +0800 > >> Shu Fai Cheung <shufai.che...@gmail.com> пишет: > >> > >>> An R-CMD-check action on an old release of R, conducted by GitHub > >>> action, failed, because Package C depends on R 4.5.0. However, I found > >>> that several other packages that import Package C, including Package > >>> B, do not require R 4.5.0. They also did not fail in all the CRAN > >>> package checks, including those r-oldrel-* checks. > >> > >> Is it semptools -> semPlot -> OpenMx? > >> > >> The situation is indeed suboptimal, because while it's easy to install > >> a binary build of the previous version of OpenMx for r-oldrel from > >> CRAN, installing a compatible version of OpenMx from source requires > >> visiting <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/OpenMx/> and > >> resolving dependencies manually, one by one. (There's no dependency > >> index of archived packages.) > >> > >> The latest version of semPlot does seem to work with the old version of > >> OpenMx, seeing as it passes the r-oldrel checks. I think that the > >> r-oldrel builders and checkers on CRAN won't notice any problem with > >> semptools either, because they still have the old version of OpenMx > >> installed. > >> > >> -- > >> Best regards, > >> Ivan > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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
