Hi, from 'Writing R Extensions' [R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-16 r51290)] one can read:
"The optional `Imports' field lists packages whose name spaces are imported from but which do not need to be attached. [...] Versions can be specified, but will not be checked when the namespace is loaded." Is it a design decision that version specifications are not asserted for packages under "Imports:", or is it a "lack of implementation"? If a design decision, under what use cases do you want to specify the version but not validating it? Is it simply because there is no mechanism for tracking the origin/package of the code importing the other package, and hence we cannot know which DESCRIPTION file to check against? Thanks Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel