[R-pkg-devel] System requirements of a vignette engine

2020-03-30 Thread fvafrcu
Dear All, inspired by Karl Broman`s reader on using 'knitr' with 'asciidoc' (http://kbroman.org/knitr_knutshell/pages/asciidoc.html), I wrote package rasciidoc some time ago. It is just a wrapper to knitr and asciidoc, which is a system requirement for the package. CRAN does not need to have asci

[R-pkg-devel] Problems importing packages with SystemRequirements

2020-04-27 Thread fvafrcu
Dear All, I maintain a package that has issues `sh: whoami: not found` and `sh: git: not found` (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_packager.html), albeit not having any (declared or undeclared) external dependencies -- no calls to system() or system2(). It does import functi

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problems importing packages with SystemRequirements

2020-04-28 Thread fvafrcu
Dear Jeff, thanks for your reply, I exactly know, where gitr and whoami are called, since I constitently use the `::` operator to import from any dependency. I am pretty sure that I use those packages for intended purposes only. Furthermore, CRAN reports issues for system calls (made by `git2r` a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problems importing packages with SystemRequirements

2020-04-28 Thread fvafrcu
Dear Uwe, thanks for your reply. But wouldn't checking for the SystemRequirements be the dependencies' jobs? Looking at `whoami`'s code (which is basically a single very well structured and clearly written file of 350 lines including roxygen comments by Gabor Csardi), I see exactly a single call t