On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Witold Eryk Wolski wrote: Please ask R development questions on the R list and not cross-post.
> Dear R-developers, Bioc-developers, > > I am working on an R package which provides a R binding to a C library, which > again depends on two other "non-standard" C++ libraries. > I have this libraries installed on my box of course and I specified the > library location in the Makevars file. > > However I thinking about to make the package available to other users and > wonder > > a) Where I should provide the information which C++ libraries must be > installed on the computer? README/ DESCRIPTION file? As stated in `Writing R Extensions': the SystemRequirements field in DESCRIPTION or a README file. > b) The library location on other users computers will be in a different place > than specified by me in the Makevars file. What mechanism of finding out the > library locations, or prompting the user to specify them are integrated in > the package installation procedure? As stated in `Writing R Extensions' section 1.2: use a configure file. > c) Which packages available on CRAN or BioConductor are *good* practice > examples? Several, e.g. RODBC (which is used as an example in `Writing R Extensions', section 1.2). Did we mention this was all in `Writing R Extensions'? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
