Thank you all for these clarifications and for all your great contributions to this project (can't be said too many times)! /Henrik
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Kurt Hornik wrote: > >>>>>>> Henrik Bengtsson writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> how is the CRAN build/check system dealing with dependencies on >>> non-CRAN packages? Are there external repositories that are dealt >>> with in special ways, e.g. Bioconductor and Omegahat? Is this >>> documented somewhere? >> >>> The most recent note on this that I could locate is "[Rd] CRAN, >>> Bioconductor and ctv package dependency questions", Kurt Hornik, Sept >>> 8, 2005; >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-September/034547.html. >>> Does the comments in that thread still reflect how CRAN works? >> >> Not quite. No more special casing of BioC or Ohat dependencies: they >> simply "work", and packages with such dependencies can fully be checked. > > With some caveats. The CRAN check summaries are from four sets of systems > (CRAN's, the Windows and Mac autobuilders and my server using the Sun Studio > compiler) and hence four supervisors. > > Most of us install the BioC and Omegahat packages that are needed as > dependencies in so far as we can (this looks to be less so for the Mac > autobuilder). But 'in so far as we can' has limits, not least the time > needed to fiddle around with some of them. > > In principle if a package depended on an off-CRAN/BioC/Omegahat package and > it was clear where to get it we would try to install it -- however, in all > past instances I have failed in that installation. > > It may be worth adding that as the number of packages grows the total time > available to work on those that fail does not increase (and all of us > involved have less time for this than we once had), so the effort available > per problematic package has decreased considerably. Also, Omegahat no longer > provides Windows binaries and the alternatives (CRAN extras, BioC extras) > only cover a few. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel