[Rd] CRAN, Bioconductor and ctv package dependency questions
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 19:42:00 CEST 2005
1. Can CRAN packages depend on Bioconductor packages and still pass
R CMD check? That is can Suggests: and Depends: in the DESCRIPTION
file contain Bioconductor packages or only other CRAN packages?
Is there an example?
2. If a package depends on a Bioconductor package does one just list
the package its dependent on or also all packages that that package
recursively depends on? Is this the same as for CRAN packages that
a package is dependent on?
3. Suppose that the output of package A is typically processed by
package B. Thus strictly speaking no function in A depends on any
function in B; however, the output of A is not very usable without post
processing it by B. Would one list A as being dependent on B anyways?
4. Are there any considerations in the above cases related to
CRAN Task Views (ctv package)?
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/
5. Are the above discussed anywhere? I looked up the Depends and Suggests
field in 1.1 of the R Extensions manual but none of the above is addressed
there.
Thanks.
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