Hi Pascal, I would not worry about that. This probably simply means that rgdal is not installed on the computer used to check the package. Since gdal is often somewhat difficult to install, I am not going to blame CRAN. ++ Alex
On 13 March 2018 at 09:50, Pascal Title <pascalti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on submitting an update to an existing R package to CRAN. I've > tested it with R CMD check --as-cran and it passes with no errors, warnings > or notes. > > But there is an error currently on the check results page for the current > version, which you can see here: > https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_envirem.html > > The error is only for the r-release-osx-x86_64 platform, where the problem > is "Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘rgdal’". > > I'm not sure what the problem is, as rgdal is a package on CRAN, and I > can't seem to reproduce this problem on the different platforms that I have > run R CMD check on, which as mac osx, ubuntu and win-builder. I imagine > that the same problem will crop up with the updated version of the package. > > I've googled the error message, and it looks like there are many R packages > with the same issue. > > Any suggestions for how to deal with this would be great. I could rewrite > parts of my R package to avoid the use of rgdal in the examples, but that's > working around the problem rather than addressing it. > > thanks! > -Pascal > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Alexandre Courtiol http://sites.google.com/site/alexandrecourtiol/home *"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"*, R. Feynman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel