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Hierarchical modelling of species community
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available from CRAN? #16

Closed nick-youngblut closed 6 years ago

nick-youngblut commented 6 years ago

As far as I can tell, HMSC isn't available from CRAN. Package installation and management with packrat or conda would be facilitated by having HMSC available on CRAN. For instance, managing the dependency hierarchy of any packages that use HMSC as a dependency (at some possible point in the future) is going to be easier to deal with if your package is on CRAN.

Are you planning (or currently working on) submitting HMSC to CRAN?

nick-youngblut commented 6 years ago

I just wanted to check whether there were any updates on this. Adding HMSC would really help with reproducing analysis environments (eg., with packrat or conda) that use the package. Otherwise, instructions for recreating the software environment would entail something like: "you can easily and rapidly recreate the environment, except for HMSC, which requires special installation instructions". The same goes for trying to install any R packages (or other software) that list HMSC as a dependency.

guiblanchet commented 6 years ago

This is a goal I have been having for a while and for which I am still working on. At the moment, there are still a few issues that I have been having with HMSC that have stopped me from adding it on the CRAN. I am currently working on these issues but I have been slowed down by a series of unexpected personal/professional events.

With a bit of luck the whole thing should be on the CRAN sooner rather than later.