Re: [R-pkg-devel] Documenting dependencies on Bioconductor packages

2016-07-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 4 July 2016 at 06:51, Kristian Hovde Liland wrote: | I haven't found any good examples on how to include such information in the | descriptions. Is it sufficient to write at the end: "This package depends on | the Biostrings package hosted by Bioconductor.", or is there a formal or more | elega

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Use a small amount of C++-level code from another package without headers in inst/include

2016-07-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 4 July 2016 at 16:56, Duncan Garmonsway wrote: | There is an R package that defines some handy functions for extracting | files from zip archives into a std::string in C++. I'd like to use those | functions in my own packages, but I can't simply link to them because the | header is not in the i

[R-pkg-devel] Use a small amount of C++-level code from another package without headers in inst/include

2016-07-04 Thread Duncan Garmonsway
There is an R package that defines some handy functions for extracting files from zip archives into a std::string in C++. I'd like to use those functions in my own packages, but I can't simply link to them because the header is not in the inst/include directory of the original package. My question