On 15/11/2022 11:59 p.m., Hugh Parsonage wrote:
I think you've misunderstood that excerpt. By "temporary development
state", it means _between_ CRAN releases; packages in a development
state are not suitable for CRAN, as the policy states:
CRAN hosts packages of publication quality and is not a development platform.
You'll need to stop depending on that package until it's fixed and the
fix is on CRAN. That said, it looks like it might be relatively
straightforward to disentangle yourself from the package -- just
rewrite the offending example?
Another solution is to put a version of that package in your own drat
repository, and use "Additional_repositories". For example, at one
point rgl used webshot2 before it was released, and I had
Suggests: webshot2, ...
Additional_repositories: https://dmurdoch.github.io/drat
with a copy of webshot2 in the drat repository.
The disadvantage of this approach is that you'll need to keep that
repository up to date as the third party package evolves, and eventually
remove the Additional_repositories: line from your DESCRIPTION, which
requires your own package update.
See https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat for instructions on setting up
the drat repository.
Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 15:35, Bernd.Gruber <bernd.gru...@canberra.edu.au> wrote:
Hi,
I have a package (dartR) that needs to be updated by CRAN (and got a time set
until a certain date). It depends on a package that is currently showing errors
in the CRAN results and therefore fails. The maintainer of that package is
busily trying to rectify the error (as can be seen be repeated submissions in
the last weeks), but was not able yet to fix it. As we are running out of time
my approach would be to have a version of the package that fixes it and use
Remotes: in the description. It runs fine without errors.
In the R-packages book I read the following:
"It's important to note that you should not submit your package to CRAN in the
intermediate state, meaning with a Remotes field and with a dependency required at a
version that's not available from CRAN or Bioconductor. For CRAN packages, this can only
be a temporary development state, eventually resolved when the dependency updates on CRAN
and you can bump your minimum version accordingly."
So is it okay to submit our package with a remote statement until the
maintainer of the other package has fixed their issues?
Thanks in advance,
Bernd
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