Re: [Rd] how to list external dependencies (i.e., non-R packages)?

2014-07-13 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Several packages in Bioconductor (and possibly CRAN) uses SystemRequirements in DESCRIPTION, but unless the user reads the DESCRIPTION file, this is for naught. Still useful to some people I think. Best, Kasper On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Greg Minshall wrote: > hi. i'm working on a pa

Re: [Rd] Namespaces and S4 Generics

2014-07-13 Thread Roger Koenker
John, Thanks very much. As you suggested, this turned out not to have anything to do with R-devel. Instead, it seemed traceable to my decision a while back to start require()'ing packages in my .Rprofile, at least when I removed .Rprofile then my original code for image methods worked fine in

[Rd] how to list external dependencies (i.e., non-R packages)?

2014-07-13 Thread Greg Minshall
hi. i'm working on a package which only works if one (or both) of two libraries (Imlib2 and MagickWand) exist on the machine on which the package is compiled and executed. as currently written, the program purposely generates an error at *compile* time if neither library is available (thinking th