Getting dependencies from off-CRAN

[barryrowlingson]

I'm trying to use R-Universe to build package B, which depends on package A. Package A has been archived from CRAN (so B has fallen off too) and some Mac people want to use B, and I don't have a Mac and they are having errors with "xcode" and "libgfortran" and stuff I know nothing about and they've tried but failed to fix.

I've got package A compiled and the user says it works. But now B depends on A, so I suspect the R-universe build will fail because A is not on CRAN. Will find out when the next hourly job runs. Is there a way I can add my universe repo to the build so it finds A okay?

[jeroen]

You can either explicitly add the upstream git url of package A to your personal packages.json, or you can specify it as a Remote: in the description of package B. Either has the same effect, that package A will get included in your repository, such that it is no longer depending on CRAN.

[barryrowlingson]

Ah that magic has worked because A is in my packages.json, and hence in my repo. I guess this is the build process listing the repositories:

Nice.