Dear R users, we have a problem when building R packages which depend on platform specific packages. The following example will illustrate our problem:
For parallel computing (in our own package) we want to use the multicore package. Since multicore is not available for Windows we subtitute it by the snowfall package. Currently we create two packages with different "Depends" argument in the DESCRIPTION files (one for unix and one for Windows). We considered using the .onLoad function and calling library(multicore) resp. library(snowfall) depending on the employed system, but it is said in the help of that function that it is not "Good practice" to do so. Is there a better practice than building two packages (with the same name and almost same code) for the different platforms. Any help is appreciated. Matthias and Florian ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
