Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 October 2016 at 18:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | No, it wouldn't be acceptable on CRAN. You need to declare your | dependencies. | | It sounds as though there's a bug somewhere, in R, RStudio, | gWidgetRGtk2, or Windows. You're in the unenviable position of having | to find and fix it.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 20/10/2016 4:14 PM, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: Ok. Duly noted. I'll be more concise and avoid even simple formatting (seems italics broke my last post to pieces). I'll try again. My main problem is that, if I have "gWidgetRGtk2" as an imported package, installation on Windows from github crashes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Ok. Duly noted. I'll be more concise and avoid even simple formatting (seems italics broke my last post to pieces). I'll try again. My main problem is that, if I have "gWidgetRGtk2" as an imported package, installation on Windows from github crashes RStudio while trying to install GTK+ libraries

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Lorenzo, Your mails are too long (at least for my attention span, and available time) and very poorly formatted. Many of us read email in text-only terminals. On 20 October 2016 at 11:05, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | I also have a (maybe stupid) question on this: in theory, I could write | this "con

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-20 Thread David C Sterratt
Dear Lorenzo, For my "retistruct" package, which depends on gWidgets2RGtk2, I have gWidgets2RGtk2, gWidgets2 and cairoDevice as "Suggests" and I put the following code in the function that opens the GUI ('retistruct()' in https://github.com/davidcsterratt/retistruct/blob/master/pkg/retistruct/R/re

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-20 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Hi Duncan and Dirk, 1) First of all, thanks for your replies ​: ​y​ ou put me in the right direction. Although I have to study a bit to really get the "syntax", looking into Jeroen github pages I was able to understand ​how the "configure" file is supposed to work. In practice, it is run while at