Hi, I'm trying to put together an R package. My library has dependencies on three other libraries: RSQLite, gaggle (a component of Bioconductor), and another package that is available as a download from the author's website.
Is it possible to specify each of those dependencies in such a way that they will be automatically installed when a user installs my library? I'd like to save the end user from a lengthy series of install steps, if possible. I've looked in the Writing R Extensions document, but am probably failing to understand most of it. If I put a bioconductor package in the Depends line of the DESCRIPTION file, should I expect that to just work? It seems like it doesn't. For the case where I need to download a .tgz file from the author's page, is there a way to fetch and install that when my library is being installed? Maybe in a configure script? Is this a practical thing to try and do? Thanks for any advise! -Chris ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
