On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Marius Hofert > <marius.hof...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have (co-)developed two packages: 'qrmtools' and 'qrmdata'. The >> latter contains data sets and is currently only available on R-Forge >> (as it is larger than 5MB and thus not accepted for CRAN [although >> there are much larger packages, but that's a different story...]). >> 'qrmtools' contains mainly tools that show what can be done with data >> such as the one contained in 'qrmdata' -- and thus has 'qrmdata' in >> Suggests. The check shows 'Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream >> repositories: qrmdata'; I also added 'Additional_repositories: >> http://r-forge.r-project.org/' to DESCRIPTION.... but of course >> winbuilder reports errors as it can't find 'qrmdata'. > > First, there are plenty of CRAN package using: > > Additional_repositories: http://r-forge.r-project.org/ > > is used, cf. > https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+Additional_repositories%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fr-forge.r-project.org&type=Code > > so this should be ok. I'm using it too. > >> >> I'm wondering about what I am supposed to do: Remove everything about >> 'qrmdata' from 'qrmtools'? Clearly, the easiest solution, but that's a >> bit dull as the 'qrmtools' can be nicely used to deal with the data >> from 'qrmdata'. > > It sounds that one of your vignettes, examples or package tests > requires the qrmdata package. It is ok to use: > > Suggests: qrmdata > > but then you should make sure it is truly optional throughout, i.e. use > > if (require("qrmdata")) { > ## Use qrmdata functions here > }
Hi Henrik, Thanks a lot. That's indeed a good idea. Cheers, Marius > > in your tests, examples etc. > > This is common practice. See also Writing R Extensions. > > Maybe there's something else to it? It would help clarify your > problem if we could see the R CMD check issues and the code (online > repository?). > > My $.02 > > Henrik > >> >> How 'severe' is this issue for vignettes? I guess since they are >> checked as well, one would run into the same problem. But then a >> vignette even more so should show/replicate the functionality of a >> paper, say, and there one would definitely like to work with the >> data... >> >> The only partially related thread I found was >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2015q2/000002.html >> >> In any case, I continue to pray to the R gods in the hope that the 5MB >> limit will change for data-related packages (which are updated very >> rarely) at some point in the future... Some 'adaptive limits' would be >> nice: The less often you submit, the larger the data package can be >> (for example), up to a certain larger limit more suitable for >> data-related packages. >> >> Any ideas on (all of) that? >> >> Cheers, >> Marius >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel