Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions regarding a new (seperated package) and how to submit them to cran

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.06.2023 02:52, Bernd.Gruber wrote:

Thanks, just to make sure:

In the policy I find the entry:

Additional_repositories:


You can use this for CRAN-style repositories. Not for other inds of 
storage. In that case you need to decalre it as written text in the 
Description field.


Best,
Uwe Ligges



The ‘Additional_repositories’ field is a comma-separated list of repository 
URLs where the packages named in the other fields may be found. It is currently 
used by R CMD check to check that the packages can be found, at least as source 
packages (which can be installed on any platform).

And here I would have to provide an url that links to the tar.gz file of the 
package, or can I also provide

The ‘Additional_repositories’ field is a comma-separated list of repository 
URLs where the packages named in the other fields may be found. It is currently 
used by R CMD check to check that the packages can be found, at least as source 
packages (which can be installed on any platform).

github::green-striped-gecko/dartR.popgenomics

similar to the Remotes: field (which I think is not possible to use).

Thanks,


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From: Uwe Ligges 
Sent: Sunday, 25 June 2023 20:51
To: Bernd.Gruber 
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions regarding a new (seperated package) and 
how to submit them to cran



On 25.06.2023 09:00, Bernd.Gruber wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the advice.

Still not 100% sure if that is okay to submit to CRAN.

As mentioned I have new packages that have others in the suggest (and yes the 
examples/tests run fine by making the dependent),

But if I have a package that is not yet on CRAN in the suggest I see that 
running winbuilder.

Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
dartR.sim


If it is not in a mainstream repo, you can declare where users can get
it from, see the explanation in the CRAN policies how to declare it.




* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... NOTE
Package suggested but not available for checking: 'dartR.sim'


This is OK, once the former is explained.

Best,
Uwe Ligges







Can I explain when I submit that dartR.sim will be there (as mentioned the 
examples run fine), but obviously is not yet on CRAN.

I assume the same would happen if I put the new packages in Enhances…

Regards, Bernd




From: Thierry Onkelinx 
mailto:thierry.onkel...@inbo.be>>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 5:51 PM
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Cc: Bernd.Gruber mailto:bernd.gru...@canberra.edu.au>>; 
r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions regarding a new (seperated package) and 
how to submit them to cran

Dear Bernd,

You could contact the maintainer of the spatstat package. They did the same 
thing (splitting a large package into several smaller ones) a few years ago.

Having the base package suggesting an add-on and the add-on depending on or 
suggesting the base package might create an unwanted loop.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Questions regarding a new (seperated package) and how to submit them to cran

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 June 2023 at 21:03, Uwe Ligges wrote:
| On 26.06.2023 02:52, Bernd.Gruber wrote:
| > Thanks, just to make sure:
| > 
| > In the policy I find the entry:
| > 
| > Additional_repositories:
| 
| You can use this for CRAN-style repositories. Not for other inds of 
| storage. In that case you need to decalre it as written text in the 
| Description field.

And the drat package [1] helps in setting up such CRAN-style repos and has a
few vignettes with details. Several CRAN packages use it for such off-CRAN
extensions. We also have a detailed write-up in the R Journal [2] about using
this scheme for data packages (which of course also works for code packages).

Dirk

[1] https://cloud.r-project.org/package=drat
[2] https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-026

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