[R-pkg-devel] Testing on old R versions

[Duncan Murdoch]

I am trying out a modified version of the tidyverse actions, and it does 
seem to be going well.  Just one question:

rgl has a soft dependency on alphashape3d, and alphashape3d has a hard 
dependency on rgl.  This means that I need to install in the order

   rgl hard dependencies
   rgl
   rgl soft dependencies

Currently I'm using this code to do that:

   # First install rgl with minimal deps then the rest
   devtools::install()
   remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)

but devtools seems unnecessarily heavy for this.  Does remotes have a 
way to specify the install in the right order?

Duncan Murdoch


On 29/01/2021 2:26 p.m., Hadley Wickham wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:27 PM Henrik Bengtsson
> <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> you're probably already aware of it, but 'rgl' depends on 'magrittr'
>> which depends on 'rlang', and the latter requires R (>= 3.3.0).
> 
> For the reference, we support R-release, R-devel, and the last four
> versions of R:
> https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2019/04/r-version-support/.
> 
> We automatically run checks on all these R versions using GitHub
> actions. You can use the same config as us by running
> usethis::use_tidy_github_actions(). If you're already using GitHub,
> I'm pretty confident that this is the fastest/easiest way to check
> with older versions of R.
> 
> Hadley
>