Re: [R] Package specific dependencies...

2007-11-23 Thread Neil Shephard
On Nov 22, 2007 4:14 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The SystemRequirements field on the DESCRIPTION file is used > to document the system requirements. For example, the DESCRIPTION > file for Ryacas (which requires yacas) is shown below. > > Package: Ryacas > Version: 0.2-8 >

Re: [R] Package specific dependencies...

2007-11-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The SystemRequirements field on the DESCRIPTION file is used to document the system requirements. For example, the DESCRIPTION file for Ryacas (which requires yacas) is shown below. Package: Ryacas Version: 0.2-8 Date: 2007-08-22 Title: R interface to the yacas computer algebra system Author: Rob

[R] Package specific dependencies...

2007-11-22 Thread Neil Shephard
Hi, I noticed recently when installing the GDD package for R under GNU/Linux that it required the gd library (http://libgd.org/) for generating graphics. The resolution of this was to simply install the library on my system, and then GDD successfully installed without any complaints. However, th