[R-pkg-devel] JSS article as package vignette introduces a dependency on R >= 4.0.4

2021-05-05 Thread Bennett Nicolas
Dear all First, the underlying problem is explained in rstudio/rticles#399 (along with a reproducible example), but I’ll try to summarize the issue: As discussed in rstudio/rticles#329, a change in h

[R-pkg-devel] Non-mainstream repository dependence for CRAN vignette building

2020-10-01 Thread Bennett Nicolas
Dear list I’m in the process of submitting a package to CRAN that uses a non-mainstream repository for several data packages that are too large for CRAN (~50 MB in total) and therefore live in a drat repository hosted by gh. Data from these packages is used during vignette building and unsurpri