Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/10/2016 4:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 19 October 2016 at 19:29, Berry Boessenkool wrote: | A package I am developing will have one additional (not core) function depending on RCurl. | To keep dependencies low, I am considering to put RCurl in 'Suggests' instead of 'Imports'. | Als

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/10/2016 5:24 PM, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: Hi Dirk, thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, in our github README we have the following intructions: "Install the following required dependencies: Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2.8.0, GLi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 October 2016 at 23:24, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, | in our github README we have | the following intructions: | | "Install the following required dependencies: | | Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Hi Dirk, thanks for the answer. Yes, I know that that does the trick. In fact, in our github README we have the following intructions: "Install the following required dependencies: Cairo >= 1.0.0, ATK >= 1.10.0, Pango >= 1.10.0, GTK+ >= 2.8.0, GLib >= 2.8.0 (required by package RGtk2) Curl (req

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
For this subproblem: On 19 October 2016 at 22:14, Lorenzo Busetto wrote: | On Linux builds, the problem is related but a bit different. | | 1. First of all, package "RGTk2" requires some external libraries to yu can just install r-cran-rgtk2 on your (Debian or Ubuntu) system and you should b

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 October 2016 at 19:29, Berry Boessenkool wrote: | A package I am developing will have one additional (not core) function depending on RCurl. | To keep dependencies low, I am considering to put RCurl in 'Suggests' instead of 'Imports'. | Also, I guess some users / systems may not have libcu

[R-pkg-devel] Submitting to CRAN a package depending on RGtk2

2016-10-19 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Dear all, I am currently in the process of releasing this github package on CRAN: https://github.com/lbusett/MODIStsp , but I am encountering some issues which I hope someone can help me overcome. Sorry for the long message, but the problem is difficult to explain briefly. Also, since thi