Thank you very much for your suggestions and explanation, Ralf. They are very helpful. I got permission from the author and use *drat::addRepo("jrminter").*
*When I try to test if this package can be installed with install.package* *install.packages("rPeaks", repos = "https://jrminter.github.io/drat/ <https://jrminter.github.io/drat/>", type = "source")Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository https://tankwin08.github.io/drat/src/contrib <https://tankwin08.github.io/drat/src/contrib>: cannot open URL 'https://tankwin08.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES <https://tankwin08.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES>'Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib <https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib>: cannot open URL 'https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES <https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES>'Installing package into ‘C:/Users/tank/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib <https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib>: cannot open URL 'https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES <https://jrminter.github.io/drat/src/contrib/PACKAGES>'Warning in install.packages : package ‘rPeaks’ is not available (for R version 3.4.3)* *Do you have any suggestion? * Best Tan On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:16 PM Ralf Stubner <ralf.stub...@daqana.com> wrote: > On 15.04.19 18:50, Tan Zhou wrote: > > I followed the suggestions based on > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29419776/r-package-dependencies-not-installed-from-additional-repositories > > . > > But it didn't work out for me. OR maybe I didn't set up it right. > > > > My GitHub repository is https://github.com/tankwin08/waveformlidar. > > > > My DESCRIPTION: > > Suggests: > > knitr, > > rPeaks > > Additional_repositories: https://github.com/jrminter/rPeaks/ > > The 'Additional_repositories' field is meant for additional CRAN-like > repositories, not for a git(hub) repository. A simple way to create such > a CRAN-like repository is given by the drat package, as mentioned in the > referenced SO answer. I am using that for the swephR package: > > ... > Suggests: > testthat, > swephRdata, > knitr, > rmarkdown > Encoding: UTF-8 > URL: https://github.com/rstub/swephR/, http://www.astro.com/swisseph/ > BugReports: https://github.com/rstub/swephR/issues/ > Additional_repositories: https://rstub.github.io/drat > ... > > > So while the 'swephRdata' can be found at > https://github.com/rstub/swephRdata/, the 'Additional_repositories' > field points to my drat repository. > > In your case, you could either ask the rPeaks author to create a drat > repo or do that yourself (possibly with the author's consent). > > Greetings > Ralf > > -- > Ralf Stubner > Senior Software Engineer / Trainer > > daqana GmbH > Dortustraße 48 > 14467 Potsdam > > T: +49 331 23 61 93 11 > F: +49 331 23 61 93 90 > M: +49 162 20 91 196 > Mail: ralf.stub...@daqana.com > > Sitz: Potsdam > Register: AG Potsdam HRB 27966 > Ust.-IdNr.: DE300072622 > Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Knirsch, Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Kuno Kunze > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Best regards Tan Zhou [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel