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Using additional repositories #56

Closed iagomosqueira closed 8 years ago

iagomosqueira commented 8 years ago

I need to use additional repositories to CRAN for testing some of my packages. I could not find a way to pass them to travis-tool.sh, so for the time being I have had to create my own fork of both r-appveyor and r-travis to add it to the defintion of InstallDeps().

Native r support in travis supports this now, so I see little point in requesting it (again) in there.

Also, I am not sure if this could be achieved in appveyor-tool.ps1, some way of setting options('repos') to include other locations than $CRAN.

Any other ideas about how to allow installation from other repoasitories when resolving package dependencies?

krlmlr commented 8 years ago

You could try the "Remotes" or "Additional_Repositories" fields; the deps are installed using devtools::install_deps(), and these fields would be used here.

iagomosqueira commented 8 years ago

I had tried with Additional_Repositories but mistakenly had not capitalized the second word. Works perfectly, thanks.

krlmlr commented 8 years ago

Glad it works for you.

maurolepore commented 5 years ago

@iagomosqueira,

RE _I had tried with AdditionalRepositories but mistakenly had not capitalized the second word.

Is it possible that your issue was not capitalization but something else?

The manual Writing R Extensions refers to Additional_repositories -- not Additional_Repositories:

The ‘Depends’, ‘Imports’, ‘Suggests’, ‘Enhances’, ‘LinkingTo’ and ‘Additional_repositories’ fields are discussed in a later subsection.

The ‘Additional_repositories’ field is a comma-separated list of repository URLs where the packages named in the other fields may be found. It is currently used by R CMD check to check that the packages can be found, at least as source packages (which can be installed on any platform).

(This may not be super important but I think it'd be nice to clarify for those who land in this issue.)