Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to specify minimum compiler version in DESCRIPTION

2020-02-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Joseph, On 19 February 2020 at 21:59, Joseph Wood wrote: | As the subject says, what is the best way to specify a minimum | compiler version in the DESCRIPTION file. In short: you can't. Read on. | I only found 2 packages on CRAN that have a minimum requirement for | GCC, however they both

[R-pkg-devel] How to specify minimum compiler version in DESCRIPTION

2020-02-19 Thread Joseph Wood
Hello, As the subject says, what is the best way to specify a minimum compiler version in the DESCRIPTION file. I only found 2 packages on CRAN that have a minimum requirement for GCC, however they both seem to be divergent in style. I could not find anything definitive in Writing R Extensions.