Duncan, Thanks for the confirmation that there isn't a formal way to state this 64bit dependency.
have a nice day, Jan Jan Wijffels Statistician www.bnosac.be | +32 486 611708 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday 11 May 2020 14:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/05/2020 8:46 a.m., Jan Wijffels wrote: > > > Duncan, > > Thanks for the reply. Let me make this more clear. > > The R package reticulate works on 32bit and 64bit. My golgotha package > > depends on reticulate and an extra Python package called torch which is not > > available for 32bit platforms. This is specified in the DESCRIPTION file at > > https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L17 > > For that reason R CMD check will fail on CRAN for 32bit. Hence my question. > > How do I specify this in the package such that I can distribute it on CRAN. > > I don't think there's a formal way to state that, and there shouldn't > be. Maybe some day someone will make 32 bit torch available, and then > your restriction would be unnecessary. Just state the current situation > in your submission comments. You may get an automatic rejection because > of the build failure, then follow the instructions for getting a human > to look at things. > > It's possible that CRAN will not be flexible on this, because it aims > for wide portability of the packages it hosts. However, 32 bit systems > are less and less common, so a good argument about why your package is > useful even if not usable on some old systems would probably get it > accepted. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > best, > > Jan > > Jan Wijffels > > Statistician > > www.bnosac.be | +32 486 611708 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Monday 11 May 2020 14:39, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > On 11/05/2020 7:54 a.m., Jan Wijffels wrote: > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have a package which I would like to host on CRAN. The package is at > > > > https://github.com/bnosac/golgotha > > > > The package only builds on 64bit however because the package uses R > > > > package reticulate which requires a python library called torch which > > > > does not build on 32 bit platforms. > > > > So installation only works using INSTALL_opts = "--no-multiarch" > > > > How do you specify this to the CRAN maintainers that this is the way it > > > > should be set up on CRAN such that it only is built for 64bit systems. > > > > > > I don't see how your package has any 32 bit dependence, since it has no > > > src directory. It's probably sufficient to declare the dependency on > > > reticulate, which indirectly implies the 32 bit dependence. But if > > > reticulate works on 32 bit systems as long as users don't need "torch", > > > then just state that. > > > One thing I'd recommend: you should try to change the dependency from > > > Depends to Imports. If there are a few reticulate functions that you > > > want your users to have access to, you can import them and re-export > > > them so they're available from your package as well. > > > Duncan ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
