On 07/06/2012 12:49, Matthew Dowle wrote:
On 07/06/2012 11:40, Matthew Dowle wrote:
Prof Ripley wrote :
That Depends line is about source installs.
I can't see that documented in either Writing R Extensions or
?install.packages. Is it somewhere else? I thought Depends applied to
binaries from CRAN too, which is the default method on Windows and Mac.
That field is documented under the description of a *source* package
(see the first line of section 1.1, and it is in that section) and is
simply copied from the source package for binary installs. It is the
extra line added to the DESCRIPTION file, e.g.
Built: R 2.15.0; x86_64-pc-mingw32; 2012-04-02 09:27:07 UTC; windows
that tells you the version a binary package was built under
(approximately for R-patched and R-devel), and library() checks.
I'm fairly sure I understand all that. I'm still missing something more
basic probably. Consider the follow workflow :
I look on CRAN at package boot. Its webpage states "Depends R (>=
2.14.0)". I'm a user running R and I know I use 2.14.1, so I think great I
can use it. I install it as follows.
version
version.string R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
install.packages("boot")
trying URL
'http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/windows/contrib/2.14/boot_1.3-4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 469615 bytes (458 Kb)
opened URL
downloaded 458 Kb
package ‘boot’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
require(boot)
Loading required package: boot
Warning message:
package ‘boot’ was built under R version 2.14.2
Does this mean that CRAN maintainers expect me to run the latest version
of the major release I'm using (R 2.14.2 in this case), not the current
release of R (R 2.15.0 currently) as you wrote earlier? If that's the
case I never realised it before, but that seems very reasonable. When I
ran the above just now I expected it to say "package 'boot' was built
under R version 2.15.0". But it didn't, it said 2.14.2. So it seems to
be my misunderstanding.
2.15.x and 2.14.x are different series, with different binary repos.
Matthew
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