R devel - Jun 2009 - CRAN build/checks: Dependencies on non-CRAN packages?

Hi,

how is the CRAN build/check system dealing with dependencies on
non-CRAN packages?  Are there external repositories that are dealt
with in special ways, e.g. Bioconductor and Omegahat?  Is this
documented somewhere?

The most recent note on this that I could locate is "[Rd] CRAN,
Bioconductor and ctv package dependency questions", Kurt Hornik, Sept
8, 2005; https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-September/034547.html.
 Does the comments in that thread still reflect how CRAN works?

Thanks

Henrik

>>>>> Henrik Bengtsson writes:
> Hi,
> how is the CRAN build/check system dealing with dependencies on
> non-CRAN packages?  Are there external repositories that are dealt
> with in special ways, e.g. Bioconductor and Omegahat?  Is this
> documented somewhere?
> The most recent note on this that I could locate is "[Rd] CRAN,
> Bioconductor and ctv package dependency questions", Kurt Hornik, Sept
> 8, 2005;
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-September/034547.html.
> Does the comments in that thread still reflect how CRAN works?
Not quite.  No more special casing of BioC or Ohat dependencies: they
simply "work", and packages with such dependencies can fully be
checked.

-k
> Thanks
> Henrik
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