Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Jan Wijffels
Dirk, Thanks. I'll use this suggestion as well. have a nice day, Jan Jan Wijffels Statistician www.bnosac.be  | +32 486 611708 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday 11 May 2020 15:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > On 11 May 2020 at 13:13, Joris Meys wrote: > | To add to the suggestion o

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 May 2020 at 13:13, Joris Meys wrote: | To add to the suggestion of Gabor and Duncan, it might be a good idea to add a packageStartupMessage that warns the user about the problem when running on a 32bit system. You can easily extract that info from R.Version()$arch . That might help negot

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Joris Meys
From: R-package-devel on behalf of Jan Wijffels Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 2:46 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN Duncan, Thanks for the reply. Let me make this more clear. The R package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Jan Wijffels
> e-maildisclaimer > > From: R-package-devel r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of Jan > Wijffels jwijff...@bnosac.be > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 2:46 PM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to l

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Hi Jan, this is the only example that I could find: https://github.com/cran/regRSM/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L13 I.e. you can have an 'Archs' field in DESCRIPTION, and apparently you can set that to 'i386' or 'x64' or both. I don't know what OSes support this field, and this package hasn't been u

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Jan Wijffels
Duncan, Thanks for the confirmation that there isn't a formal way to state this 64bit dependency. have a nice day, Jan Jan Wijffels Statistician www.bnosac.be  | +32 486 611708 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday 11 May 2020 14:55, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/05/2020 8:46 a.m., Jan

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2020 8:46 a.m., Jan Wijffels wrote: Duncan, Thanks for the reply. Let me make this more clear. The R package reticulate works on 32bit and 64bit. My golgotha package depends on reticulate and an extra Python package called torch which is not available for 32bit platforms. This is spec

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Jan Wijffels
Duncan, Thanks for the reply. Let me make this more clear. The R package reticulate works on 32bit and 64bit. My golgotha package depends on reticulate and an extra Python package called torch which is not available for 32bit platforms. This is specified in the DESCRIPTION file at https://githu

Re: [R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/05/2020 7:54 a.m., Jan Wijffels wrote: Hello everyone, I have a package which I would like to host on CRAN. The package is at https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha The package only builds on 64bit however because the package uses R package reticulate which requires a python library called t

[R-pkg-devel] how to specify to let a package only build 64bit on CRAN

2020-05-11 Thread Jan Wijffels
Hello everyone, I have a package which I would like to host on CRAN. The package is at https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha The package only builds on 64bit however because the package uses R package reticulate which requires a python library called torch which does not build on 32 bit platforms.