Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 September 2013 at 19:01, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 13-09-14 9:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | > | On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to b

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-09-14 12:19 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote: On 13-09-14 09:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 September 2013 at 11:42, Paul Gilbert wrote: | On 13-09-13 11:02 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > It's not so much Rcpp itself or my 20-ish packages but

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-09-14 9:16 AM, Brian G. Peterson wrote: On 09/14/2013 08:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is _tr

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-09-14 9:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be | > on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Matthew Dowle
I'm a little surprised by this thread. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of changes to NEWS (as Dirk mentioned) and that's been pretty informative in the past : http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html Mainly though, I submit to winbuilder before submitting to CRAN, as the CRAN policies advise.

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Gilbert
On 13-09-14 09:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 September 2013 at 11:42, Paul Gilbert wrote: | On 13-09-13 11:02 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > It's not so much Rcpp itself or my 20-ish packages but the fact that we (as | > in the Rcpp author

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On 09/14/2013 08:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is _truly_ appreciated in its thoroughness and reach) c

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be | > on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is | > _truly_ appreciated in its thorough

Re: [Rd] declaring package dependencies

2013-09-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 September 2013 at 11:42, Paul Gilbert wrote: | On 13-09-13 11:02 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > It's not so much Rcpp itself or my 20-ish packages but the fact that we (as | > in the Rcpp authors) now stand behind an API that also has to acc

Re: [Rd] Fortune! (Re: declaring package dependencies)

2013-09-14 Thread Achim Zeileis
Thanks, added to the devel-version on R-Forge. Z On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 September 2013 at 08:31, Michael Friendly wrote: | Thanks for this explanation, but I'm still confused about how to avoid | the wrath of the CRAN-devel daemon, whose appetite for new morsels of