Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to account for optional packages not necessarily on CRAN

2019-12-10 Thread Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Thanks Dirk!  I did not realize that suggested packages are not required to be on primary repos like CRAN, BioC.  We do indeed condition our code to check that. So I guess, we are good to go, as is. I will, in due time, read the paper too... -N On 12/10/19 5:52 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: O

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to account for optional packages not necessarily on CRAN

2019-12-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 December 2019 at 17:22, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote: | We've run into the following problem in integrating commercial and open | source solvers in to our package CVXR. We have "Suggests" dependency on | some packages that may not be available to CRAN. | | There are two main scenario

[R-pkg-devel] How to account for optional packages not necessarily on CRAN

2019-12-10 Thread Balasubramanian Narasimhan
We've run into the following problem in integrating commercial and open source solvers in to our package CVXR. We have "Suggests" dependency on some packages that may not be available to CRAN. There are two main scenarios. 1. A suggested meta-package is on CRAN, e.g. Rmosek, but the user must