[Rd] CRAN build/checks: Dependencies on non-CRAN packages?

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> 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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