Dear Dominik, IMHO you only need to list "first order" dependencies: things that your package directly uses. Listing higher order dependencies would be redundant as they are listed in the packages that have them as first order dependency.
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// <https://www.inbo.be> Op do 9 apr. 2020 om 09:52 schreef Dominik Leutnant <leutn...@fh-muenster.de >: > Hi all, > > should “SystemRequirements” of an imported package be listed in the > description file of a package? > > General scenario: > - Package X imports Package Y. > - Package Y lists “libzzz” as SystemRequirements. > > Should Package X list the SystemRequirements “libzzz” as well? (question > occurred @ https://github.com/dleutnant/influxdbr/issues/47) > > Thank you and happy easter! > Dominik > > > > Dr. Dominik Leutnant > Department of Civil Engineering > Institute for Infrastucture·Water·Resources·Environment (IWARU) > WG Urban Hydrology and Water Management > > Muenster University of Applied Sciences > Corrensstr. 25 > FRG-48149 Münster > Germany > > Tel.: +49 (0) 251/83-65274 > Mail: leutn...@fh-muenster.de<mailto:leutn...@fh-muenster.de> > Web: https://www.fh-muenster.de/ > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
