I suggest you post this on r-package-devel. That seems a better fit. Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 7:55 AM Søren Højsgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all > > My gRbase package imports the packages from Bioconductor: graph, RBGL and > Rgraphviz > > If these packages are not installed, then gRbase can not be installed. The > error message is: > > ERROR: dependency ‘graph’ is not available for package ‘gRbase’ > > If I, prior to installation, run setRepositories and highlight 'BioC > software', then gRbase installs as it should, because the graph package > from Bioconductor is installed along with it. However, this extra step is > an obstacle to many users of the package which means that either people do > not use the package or people ask questions about this issue on stack > overflow, R-help, by email to me etc. It is not a problem to get the > package on CRAN because, I guess, the CRAN check machines already have the > three bioconductor packages installed. > > Therefore, I wonder if there is a way of specifying, in the DESCRIPTION > file or elsewhere, that these packages should be installed automatically > from bioconductor. > > An alternative would be if one could force the error message > > ERROR: dependency ‘graph’ is not available for package ‘gRbase’ > > to be accompanied by a message about what the user then should do. > > Any good suggestions? Thanks in advance. > > Best regards > Søren > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
