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
