Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting gurobi

2021-06-08 Thread Noah Greifer
Thank you all for your help. I won't set up a repo for gurobi because I don't have the authority to do that. It seems like I should include gurobi in Suggests, even though it cannot be automatically installed from any repository, include instructions for installing it in Description, and just deal

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting gurobi

2021-06-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting gurobi

2021-06-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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 Sugge

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting gurobi

2021-06-04 Thread Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Suggests" would trigger an attempt to install gurobi, which is not on CRAN. We used "Enhances" for our CVXR  because (1) None of the functionality in the package requires gurobi; (2) Packages in "Enhances" are not required to check the package by CRAN. Your package mirrors ours in these respec

[R-pkg-devel] Suggesting gurobi

2021-06-04 Thread Noah Greifer
Hello, I have been working on adding an option for my users to use integer programming (a method of optimization) to enhance the results of a function in my package. There are several R packages on CRAN that perform integer programming, including Rglpk and Rsymphony. However, there is a commercial