[R] Dependency on R-Forge Package

Thu Feb 17 16:23:03 CET 2011

On 17.02.2011 15:29, Damian Betebenner wrote:
> In building a package, is it possible to make the package depend upon another package that is only available on R-Forge (not CRAN). For example, by doing something in the DESCRIPTION file
> I'd like to add a dependency to my package such that when the user install my package it will automatically install this other package from R-forge as well.

Not completely, the user has to choose R-forge as a repository (which is 
not the default but easily selectable).

Uwe Ligges

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> Any help greatly appreciated.
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> Damian
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