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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 October 2016 at 18:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| No, it wouldn't be acceptable on CRAN.  You need to declare your 
| dependencies.
| 
| It sounds as though there's a bug somewhere, in R, RStudio, 
| gWidgetRGtk2, or Windows.  You're in the unenviable position of having 
| to find and fix it.  (CRAN won't care if this only affects RStudio, and 
| you might get away with an install that doesn't support Windows.)

I usually suspect threading, which is tricky / impossible to fix.  RStudio
needs it (as it is a GUI), and so does RGtk2.  IIRC we have had similar
issues with tcltk as well as with some of task parallelizers.

Dirk

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