The packages in additional repositories are not installed on the CRAN checking machines. The NOTE is expected, but it's not a warning, so your package should still be allowed to upload to CRAN. You should not remove ionChannelData from Suggests because then the reference to that package in your documentation will become a WARNING and your package will not be uploaded to CRAN.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 21:35 Rolf Turner <rolftur...@posteo.net> wrote: > > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
