Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
John Fox wrote: Dear Seth, -Original Message- From: Seth Falcon [mailto:s...@userprimary.net] Sent: September-22-09 5:13 PM To: Uwe Ligges Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies * On 2009-09-22 at 20:16 +0200 Uwe Ligges wrote: no, this is

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Seth, > -Original Message- > From: Seth Falcon [mailto:s...@userprimary.net] > Sent: September-22-09 5:13 PM > To: Uwe Ligges > Cc: John Fox; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies > > * On 2009-09-22 at 20:16 +0200 Uwe Ligges wr

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Seth Falcon
* On 2009-09-22 at 20:16 +0200 Uwe Ligges wrote: > no, this is not possible. > > Consider your package A (or Rcmdr) suggests B that suggests C. > Then A::foo uses the function B::bar which only works if C::dep is > present. B works essentially without C but it requires C just to > make bar work. T

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
John Fox wrote: Dear Uwe, -Original Message- From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] Sent: September-22-09 2:17 PM To: John Fox Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies John Fox wrote: Dear r-devel members, My Rcmdr package

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
nstallation of suggested packages. Maybe the idea is a > > good one after all. > > > > Thank you, > >  John > > > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: September-22-0

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
gt;  John > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] >> Sent: September-22-09 2:32 PM >> To: John Fox >> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies >> >> Create a pac

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
; Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies > > Create a package called RcmdrInstall, say, with no content and have it > depend on Rcmdr. RcmdrInstall would have all packages as dependencies > while Rcmdr would only have the essential packages as dependencies. > > Install

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear Uwe, > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] > Sent: September-22-09 2:17 PM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies > > > > John Fox wrote: > > De

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Create a package called RcmdrInstall, say, with no content and have it depend on Rcmdr. RcmdrInstall would have all packages as dependencies while Rcmdr would only have the essential packages as dependencies. Install RcmdrInstall. That would also force Rcmdr to be installed. Now issue: libr

Re: [Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Uwe Ligges
John Fox wrote: Dear r-devel members, My Rcmdr package "depends" on several other packages (tcltk, grDevices, utils, and car) and "suggests" a number of others (abind, aplpack, colorspace, effects, foreign, grid, Hmisc, lattice, leaps, lmtest, MASS, mgcv, multcomp, nlme, nnet, relimp, rgl, and

[Rd] Rcmdr package dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread John Fox
Dear r-devel members, My Rcmdr package "depends" on several other packages (tcltk, grDevices, utils, and car) and "suggests" a number of others (abind, aplpack, colorspace, effects, foreign, grid, Hmisc, lattice, leaps, lmtest, MASS, mgcv, multcomp, nlme, nnet, relimp, rgl, and RODBC). The reason