fMultivar and fBasics

[Martin Maechler]

{I've dropped  David Carlson from CC}

>>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>>     on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:43:32 -0500 writes:

    DE> On 17 April 2009 at 19:56, Yohan Chalabi wrote:

     [ ..................... ]

      YC> It is important to update the other Rmetrics packages when you
      YC> install a new version of one of the packages.
      YC> 
      YC> The recommended way to do so is to use the R script available at
      YC> http://www.rmetrics.org .
      YC> 
      YC> In an R console try
      YC> 
      YC> source("http://www.rmetrics.org/Rmetrics.R")
      YC> install.Rmetrics()

    DE> I am not convinced that working outside of the existing
    DE> R package management system buys you something.
    DE> DESCRIPTION file have been supporting Depends with >=
    DE> and <= operators since R 2.7.0.  It would be nice if
    DE> these were used here.

    DE> FWIW I an once again trying to upgrade an avalanche of
    DE> Rmetrics packages in Debian, rather than working through
    DE> a phased upgraded. The fBasics Depends: on timeSeries
    DE> that tripped up David is not made explicit and is
    DE> stopping me too. I consider that to be a bug in
    DE> Rmetrics.

Yohan, I agree with Dirk that really this should be solved by
correctly specified
	  'Depends:' 
and	  'Imports:'  in the DESCRIPTION files.

{{ or have you ended up, having *circular* dependencies ? 
   I hope not ! }}

@ Dirk:  Good luck in Boston!

Best regards,
Martin