[Bioc-devel] biocLite and automatic installing of packages Imports packages

[Martin Morgan]

On 09/25/2017 09:40 PM, Stefan Mutter wrote:
> Hi,
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> we are currently developing a package that we want to submit to Bioconductor and I am working on the documentation part at the moment.
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> Our packages requires Rcpp and we have added this dependency under Imports into the DESCRIPTION file. What I am wondering is whether in this situation biocLite would automatically install Rcpp for users that haven't installed the package yet? Or do I need to inform users to install Rcpp first and then use the biocLite command? I have read through your documentation online, but it wasn't clear to me whether biocLite automatically install dependencies listed in Imports.

biocLite() uses install.packages but with appropriate repositories; 
install.packages() installs dependencies (Depends: and Imports: and 
LinkingTo: by default) so no need for the user to separately install Rcpp.

Martin

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> Thanks for your help.
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> Cheers,
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> Stefan
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