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On September 8, 2019 11:27:27 PM PDT, "VILAR ÁLVAREZ ANDREA" <andrea.vilar.alva...@usc.es> wrote: > >Hi, > >I am writting because I am doing a package in R and I have some >problems installing dependences which appear at DESCRIPTION file. > >First of all, I am not sure about the difference between �Depends� and >�Imports�, but I only use �Depends�. >My problem is that my package is going to be used at different >computers and for different persons so I want that when other person >use my package, it can be able to check if the necesary packages are >installed and if they are not installed, the package must be able to >install them. >I supposed that this problem was solved including the necesary packages >and their versions at �Depends�. And now, I have another problem >because the versions are usually indicated using �>=�, for example: >forecast (>=8.7) but I need to use exactly the versi�n 8.7 because >sometimes when packages are updated, they lost some functions. But if I >use �<=� or �==� and the package is update to versi�n 8.8, my package >installation fail. >How can I solve this? If I use R normaly (outside my package), I can >install older versions of other packages using >devtools::install_version() so why when I indicate � forecast (<=8.7)� >at Depends on the DESCRIPTION file, R is not able to install an older >version if a new one is avaliable? > >Thanks in advance for your attention. > >Best regards, > >Andrea. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
