[Rd] Creating a package bundle.
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Mar 27 15:59:00 CEST 2006
Steve Su wrote:
> Dear All,
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> What is the easiest way to create a package bundle in R? I have three
> packages I would like to group together in which one package will
> depends on three others. It looks like from
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> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/01a/0284.html, all that is
> required is to put require in the .First? I wonder how one can create a
> package so that when it is downloaded,
>
> all the other packages are downloaded and installed as well? In my case,
> the three sub packages are not written by me and are already in R so I
> would like to keep the current
Perhaps you simply want to use
install.packages("the_package", dependencies = TRUE)
rather than building a package bundle of packages you are not
maintaining yourself.
Uwe Ligges
> versions as part of the bundle rather than allow them to get updated so
> there will not be compatibility problems?
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> I am aware there is a writing R extensions guide but it seems to be
> geared towards a more advanced user rather than beginner like me?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Steve.
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