On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, hadley wickham wrote: >> > ggplot currently requires 13 packages (grid, reshape, RColorBrewer, >> > proto, splines, MASS, Hmisc, boot, butler, hexbin, mapproj, quantreg, >> > sm). Some of these are absolutely necessary (eg. proto), but most are >> > used for one or two specific tasks (eg. boot is only used to get >> > plogis, used for logit scales). >> >> Hmm, there is no plogis in boot, but there is in stats. > > Oops, I had originally included it to use logit and inv.logit, but > then realised I could use plogis etc instead. That's one dependency > down. > >> >> > Do you think I should make them all "depends" packages, or "suggests" >> > packages, and then manually test for package presence before using a >> > certain function? What is easier for users? >> >> The second, especially as from 2.5.0 the 'Depends' and 'Imports' are >> installed by default. > > Ok, that makes sense then. > >> What you have not mentioned is that those packages also have dependencies. >> >> Using 'Depends' on a non-CRAN package (e.g. hexbin) is definitely awkward >> for the user/sysadmin and I would try to avoid it. > > It's frustrating enough for the windows user, as suggests packages > seem to get installed by default as well.
Prior to 2.5.0, yes, but not in future. > >> I've been here with ggplot for my GGobi class, and a smaller set of >> would have been helpful. Do you really need reshape, for example? > > Reshape powers the facetting, so is essential. It also reflects my > philosophy of separating data manipulation from display, as opposed to > lattice which often combines the two (there are advantages and > disadvantages to both, of course) > > I think the minimum I need is grid, reshape, and proto, none of which > have any further dependencies. > > Hadley > -- 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
