What is the Bioconductor policy on accepting packages that import packages not available at BioC or CRAN. The external package would be available at a public website instead. Assume that the licensing of the external package is appropriate. Thanks, Sam

On 02/18/2014 10:01 AM, Samuel Younkin wrote: > What is the Bioconductor policy on accepting packages that import packages not > available at BioC or CRAN. The external package would be available at a public > website instead. Assume that the licensing of the external package is appropriate. This is strongly discouraged. This creates work and confusion for the Bioconductor maintainers and for your users, and almost invariable resolves itself either favorably (the functionality or package is migrated to a CRAN pacakge) or unfavorably (the dependent package becomes out-of-date and the Bioconductor package has to be removed). Might as well start where we'll end up, using CRAN or Bioconductor packages. For future reference, questions like this are better addressed to the bioc-devel mailing list. Martin > > Thanks, > > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793