On 13 February 2017 at 09:05, Tim Keitt wrote: | My tests are failing on AppVeyor because BH is not available. How do I | force AppVeyor to install the package? It is in the LinkingTo: field, but | my tests call sourceCpp and it fails there. The Cpp code has the "depends" | directive for BH. It is either not being installed or is absent from the | test environment. Thought I would try to modify .appveyor.yml and force a | BH install. What's the trick?
It is a design shortcoming in R's dependency mechanism. A 'LinkingTo:' used this way is a 'Build-Depends' but not recognised by the code doing the installations for you which installs only (run-time) Depends. I don't use AppVeyor, and when I use Travis with my maintained fork of the initial scheme [1], I install packages explicitly. I like having that control, and that is one of the reason I use that scheme. Dirk [1] http://eddelbuettel.github.io/r-travis/ -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
