Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package Encoding and Literal Strings

2020-12-22 Thread jo...@jorisgoosen.nl
Hello Tomas, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:21, Tomas Kalibera wrote: > Hi Joris, > > On 12/21/20 7:33 PM, jo...@jorisgoosen.nl wrote: > > Hello Tomas, > > Thank you for the feedback and your summary of how things now work and > what goes wrong for the tao- and mathot-string confirms all of my > susp

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Question about package dependency

2020-12-22 Thread Neal Fultz
Unless there is something Oracle-specific for your database code, I'd recommend using the DBI interface instead - "enterprise" users can provide an Oracle object to your functions, and other people could use their own particular databases. DBI itself could be a Suggests dependency if it isn't stri

[R-pkg-devel] Question about package dependency

2020-12-22 Thread Sebastien Bihorel
Hi I am working on modifying a package originally developed for use within my company, with the intent to distribute it to users external to our company. The package currently depends on ROracle to extract data from an Oracle database. The modifications I am implementing would allow the package

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Question about package dependency

2020-12-22 Thread Sebastien Bihorel
Thanks David, I will look into your suggestion more. Sebastien From: David Bosak Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 20:27 To: Sebastien Bihorel ; r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: RE: [R-pkg-devel] Question about package dependency Hi Sebastian: What y

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Question about package dependency

2020-12-22 Thread Sebastien Bihorel
Hi Neal, The database is beyond specific in our case and for internal use only. External users should not be able to interact with it. I will look into the Suggests approach. Thanks From: Neal Fultz Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 20:34 To: Sebastien Bihorel