You just need to list the packages that you explicitly depend on. Most likely you should be using imports instead of "depends" but that's a different issue. It might seem like you're doing the user a favor by making it explicit *all* the packages that will end up on their system if your package is installed but what happens when a package you use changes the packages that it depends on? Are you going to take the time to check n layers deep to make sure your dependency list matches what should be on the users system? If a package you use drops one of the other packages that they used to import in favor of a different package and you don't notice it then you're going to end up installing a package on the user's system that they don't actually need.
tldr: Just list the packages you explicitly need. -Dason Kurkiewicz On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov> wrote: > HI All: > > What is best practice for the "depends" in the Description file, in terms of > how of how many layers down do I list depends? For example, if my package > depends on the rerddap package, is it best practice to just list rerddap in > the depends, or should I also list all the packages rerddap depends on - > which can go many layers deep. What is best practice for this? > > Thanks, > > -Roy > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > ***Note new street address*** > 110 McAllister Way > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr. > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
