Greetings and Salutations Marius, For implementation help with “Additional_repositories”, which lacks a bit of documentation, please see: http://thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/r-data-packages-in-external-data-repositories-using-the-additional_repositories-field/
Under this approach, I am able use `imudata` package [https://github.com/smac-group/imudata] to build the vignettes within the `gmwm` package [https://github.com/smac-group/gmwm] with the suggests field filled in as: “Suggests: imudata”. Otherwise, CRAN would not accept the `gmwm` package as-is. (Regarding the package size claim, there really are not that many packages greater than 5 mb… For some figures on this, see: http://thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/size-and-limitations-of-packages-on-cran/ ) Sincerely, JJB On 5/21/16, 10:22 AM, "R-package-devel on behalf of Marius Hofert" <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of 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'. > >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'. > >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
