It's surprising that this is only an error on Debian ...
In general "strong dependencies not in mainstream repositories" is a
non-starter. Here is the relevant paragraph from the CRAN repository
policies:
> Packages on which a CRAN package depends should be available from a
mainstream repository ... [where "depends" means
"Depends/Imports/LinkingTo]
In principle you could create a package that only "Suggests:" INLA
(and uses it conditionally) but is effectively non-functional without it
(i.e. in the absence of INLA, all examples or tests that depend on INLA
are disabled). This does seem to defeat the intention of the policy,
though. I don't know if the CRAN maintainers would reject it for
violating the spirit of the policy ...
cheers
Ben Bolker
On 9/6/20 3:48 PM, Edoardo Baldoni wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to publish on CRAN a package that uses the INLA::inla function
from the INLA package. The INLA package is outside CRAN. After package
submission, CRAN gives me an error that seems to be related to the use of
this INLA::inla function on Debian R. The error says that the INLA package
is not available. Below the result of the CRAN check.
Can I do anything about it? Can I still publish my package on CRAN?
Thanks
Edoardo
package AGPRIS_1.0.tar.gz does not pass the incoming checks automatically,
please see the following pre-tests:
Windows: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/AGPRIS_1.0_20200906_195909/Windows/00check.log
Status: 1 WARNING, 2 NOTEs
Debian: <
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/AGPRIS_1.0_20200906_195909/Debian/00check.log
Status: 1 ERROR, 1 WARNING
* using log directory ‘/srv/hornik/tmp/CRAN/AGPRIS.Rcheck’
* using R Under development (unstable) (2020-09-04 r79137)
* using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file ‘AGPRIS/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘AGPRIS’ version ‘1.0’
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... WARNING
Maintainer: ‘Edoardo Baldoni <edoardo.bald...@gmail.com>’
New submission
Strong dependencies not in mainstream repositories:
INLA
Size of tarball: 13345524 bytes
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
Package required but not available: ‘INLA’
See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
* DONE
Status: 1 ERROR, 1 WARNING
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