Simon Urbanek writes:
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
[...]
>> We need to address this: With 2600+ packages and continued growth,
>> manually wading through README is not good enough. We should do
>> better. Resources (time, money, servers, ...) would help. Maybe one
>>
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>Sent: February-04-11 1:58 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Rd] dependencies on system packages
>
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Simon,
>
> On 4 February 2011 at 10:01, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> | Claudia,
> |
> | thanks for you comments .
> |
> | On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Claudia Beleites wrote:
> |
> | > Dear all,
> | >
> | > From the writing extensions manual
On 2/4/11 9:01 AM, "Simon Urbanek" wrote:
>I'd argue that if a user attempts to install a package from sources
>instead of using the distribution binaries, he should know what he's
>doing as there is much more involved (proper tools, usually a different
>library location etc.).
Most of the
Simon,
On 4 February 2011 at 10:01, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| Claudia,
|
| thanks for you comments .
|
| On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Claudia Beleites wrote:
|
| > Dear all,
| >
| > From the writing extensions manual:
| > "Other dependencies (external to the R system) should be listed in the
‘Sy
Claudia,
thanks for you comments .
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Claudia Beleites wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> From the writing extensions manual:
> "Other dependencies (external to the R system) should be listed in the
> ‘SystemRequirements’ field, possibly amplified in a separate README file."
>
>
Dear all,
From the writing extensions manual:
"Other dependencies (external to the R system) should be listed in the
‘SystemRequirements’ field, possibly amplified in a separate README file."
I guess one problem is the user may not realize that the -dev version is
needed, and just sees libxml
Jeroen,
On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
>
> Many R packages depend on some unix libraries that are not part of most
> default installations. I often spend a significant amount of time figuring
> out where to get the appropriate libraries for compiling these packages,
> after they
