[R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

[Lorenzo Busetto]

Hi Dirk,

thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact,
in our  github README we have
the following intructions:

"Install the following required dependencies:

Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2.8.0, GLib >=
2.8.0 (required by package RGtk2)
Curl (required by package curl)
GDAL >= 1.6.3, PROJ.4 >= 4.4.9 (required by package rgdal)

On Debian and Ubuntu-based systems, to install those packages open a
terminal and type

sudo apt-get install r-cran-cairodevice r-cran-rgtk2
libcurl4-openssl-dev libgdal-dev libproj-dev  "

One of my questions here (maybe dumb), is how/where I should  specify
those dependencies when submitting to CRAN.
Is putting intructions like these in the readme of the package
sufficient, or do I need to do something else ? That's what I was
asking as first point of the "Linux" part of the previous post (sorry
if it was not clear).

Lorenzo

On 19 October 2016 at 22:36, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> For this subproblem:
>
> On 19 October 2016 at 22:14, Lorenzo Busetto wrote:
> |   On Linux builds, the problem is related but a bit different.
> |
> |  1. First of all, package "RGTk2" requires some external libraries to
>
> yu can just install r-cran-rgtk2 on your (Debian or Ubuntu) system and you
> should be good.
>
> Dirk
>
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