Re: [R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

2019-09-13 Thread Raphael Hartmann
Hi Ege Thank you for your answer. I also think it won't be easy to build it in my package. The hint with the description file is a good one. Does that get read automatically? So far, I had the following line 'SystemRequirements: GNU Scientific Library version >= 2.5' (at that time I was not aware

Re: [R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

2019-09-13 Thread Ege Rubak
Hi, It may be a big task to ship all of GSL with your R package, and since it is a large standard library which is "easy" to install on most systems, I doubt that it's worth the effort. I would recommend putting `GSL (>=2.3)` in `SystemRequirements` in your DESCRIPTION file. As you point out

Re: [R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

2019-09-11 Thread Raphael Hartmann
Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking again: Does anybody have an idea on how to implement the whole GSL library in my package? I was not able to find sth. on Google. Whom should I contact for asking whether it is possible to update GSL for Windows on CRAN? There were no warnings or errors in the C

[R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

2019-09-06 Thread Raphael Hartmann
Hello, I developed an R package that requires at least version 2.3 of GSL (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/). The newest version is 2.6. Version 2.3 is now available for over two years, and I was wondering whether it was possible to update GSL on the win-builder? I would really appreciate it. Witho