Re: [R-pkg-devel] In Description file, how far removed should the depends go?

2017-08-29 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
Thanks I meant Imports, just wasn't thinking. The main issue was how deep to recurse. -Roy > On Aug 29, 2017, at 9:50 AM, Uwe Ligges > wrote: > > > > On 29.08.2017 18:24, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote: >> HI All: >> What is best practice for the "depends" in the Description file,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] In Description file, how far removed should the depends go?

2017-08-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 29.08.2017 18:24, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal 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 rerd

Re: [R-pkg-devel] In Description file, how far removed should the depends go?

2017-08-29 Thread Dason Kurkiewicz
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

[R-pkg-devel] In Description file, how far removed should the depends go?

2017-08-29 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
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 re