Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: > Dear R-devels, > > We have encountered a problem concerning a dead lock in the dependency graph: > > We have two packages A1 and A2 where A2 extends A1. > > We have one package vignette for both packages, but which should be included > into package A1. > > So in the "suggests" field of the DESCRIPTION file of A1 we suggest A2 > to be able to produce the vignette at build/install time. > > On the other hand this means that A2 has to be installed before being > able to check A1, and A1, of course, has to be installed before being > able to check A2. > > How can this dead lock be resolved? > > Is this a case for a bundle? And can a bundle have its own vignette?
Vignettes just go in one of the packages. There is not really a "bundle vignette", and also no really good place to put vignettes if they are more general than one of the packages. I'm not sure if a bundle will resolve the deadlock. (Kurt might know if it should.) The way I have handle this problem in dse is to put pieces of the vignettes in different packages, so the part that requires the additional functionality goes in A2, and A1 does not require A2. That allows me to check the packages individually. Then when I build the bundle I splice together the pdf files and put the combined pdf in one of the packages (which I think users may find a bit confusing, but there is no other place). Paul > > Thanks for listening > Peter, Matthias, Florian, Thomas > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential inform...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
