[R-pkg-devel] Question about configure file and system requirements

[Lorenzo Busetto]

Hi Martin,

    thanks for your reply.

That's what I thought (hoped), but I wanted to be sure before submitting.

Lorenzo

On 21 November 2016 at 10:15, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> >>>>> Lorenzo Busetto <lbusett at gmail.com>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:04:53 +0100 writes:
>
>     > Dear all, a quick question:
>
>     > while preparing for a CRAN submission, am I supposed to
>     > include a "configure" file and list for system
>     > requirements also if those system requirements "come from"
>     > the packages that I import ?
>
> If the requirements are *only* in these packages, and not
> (directly) in your package's functions,
> you should *not* duplicate the checks (nor the entries in
> DESCRIPTION),
>
> by the same logic that you should not list 'Depends', 'Imports',
> 'Suggests', etc of those packages.
>
> Martin Maechler
> ETH Zurich
>
>     > Asking this because the "configure" and system
>     > requirements are already present in the imported packages,
>     > so my configuration check would duplicate what is already
>     > done while installing the dependencies.
>
>     > sorry if this is dumb...
>
>     > Lorenzo
>

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