I have submitted a new package to CRAN, and this package has been knocked back on the basis of a NOTE:
> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE > Package suggested but not available for checking: 'ionChannelData' This suggested package consists of data sets, the size of which is too large to satisfy CRAN's constraints. I put this package in a repository on github, from which it can be accessed by users. My DESCRIPTION file contains the line: > Additional_repositories: https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev The given URL seems to work, in that users can indeed load the ionChannelData package via the command > install.packages("ionChannelData",repos="https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev") I was under the impression that this was all that I needed to do. The CRAN checking process acknowledges the existence of the repository in question: > Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories: > ionChannelData > Availability using Additional_repositories specification: > ionChannelData yes https://rolfturner.r-universe.dev So CRAN knows about this repository. Why can it not make use of it? What can/should I do to resolve this problem? I guess I could simply *not* Suggest ionChannelData. But what then, is the point of the option of including an Additional_repositories field in the DESCRIPTION file? cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Stats. Dep't. (secretaries) phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel