From jorismeys at gmail.com  Thu Jun 16 09:37:05 2016
From: jorismeys at gmail.com (Joris Meys)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:37:05 +0200
Subject: [Rd] new function to tools/utils package: dependencies based on
 DESCRIPTION file
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Dear Jan,

It is unavoidable to have OS and R dependencies for devtools. The building
process for packages is both OS and R dependent, so devtools has to be too
according to my understanding.

Cheers
Joris
On 14 Jun 2016 18:56, "Jan G?recki" <J.Gorecki at wit.edu.pl> wrote:

Hi Thierry,

I'm perfectly aware of it. Any idea when devtools would be shipped as
a base R package, or at least recommended package? To actually answer
the problem described in my email.
I have range of useful functions available tools/utils packages which
are shipped together with R. They doesn't require any OS dependencies
or R dependencies, unlike devtools which requires both. Installing
unnecessary OS dependencies and R dependencies just for such a simple
wrapper doesn't seem to be an elegant way to address it, therefore my
proposal to include that simple function in tools, or utils package.

Regards,
Jan Gorecki

On 14 June 2016 at 16:17, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be> wrote:
> Dear Jan,
>
> Similar functionality is available in devtools::dev_package_deps()
>
> Best regards,
>
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
> Forest
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than
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what
> the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
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> ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
> ~ John Tukey
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> 2016-06-14 16:54 GMT+02:00 Jan G?recki <J.Gorecki at wit.edu.pl>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Packages tools and utils have a lot of useful stuff for R developers.
>> I find one task still not as straightforward as it could. Simply to
>> extract dependencies of a package from DESCRIPTION file (before it is
>> even installed to library). This would be valuable in automation of CI
>> setup in a more meta-data driven way.
>> The simple function below, I know it is short and simple, but having
>> it to be defined in each CI workflow is a pain, it could be already
>> available in tools or utils namespace.
>>
>> package.dependencies.dcf <- function(file = "DESCRIPTION", which =
>> c("Depends","Imports","LinkingTo")) {
>>     stopifnot(file.exists(file), is.character(which))
>>     which_all <- c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests",
>> "Enhances")
>>     if (identical(which, "all"))
>>         which <- which_all
>>     else if (identical(which, "most"))
>>         which <- c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests")
>>     stopifnot(which %in% which_all)
>>     dcf <- read.dcf(file, which)
>>     # parse fields
>>     raw.deps <- unlist(strsplit(dcf[!is.na(dcf)], ",", fixed = TRUE))
>>     # strip stated dependency version
>>     deps <- trimws(sapply(strsplit(trimws(raw.deps), "(", fixed =
>> TRUE), `[[`, 1L))
>>     # exclude base R pkgs
>>     base.pkgs <- c("R", rownames(installed.packages(priority = "base")))
>>     setdiff(deps, base.pkgs)
>> }
>>
>> This allows to easily install all package dependencies just based on
>> DESCRIPTION file, so simplify that in custom CI workflows to:
>>
>> if (length(pkgs<-package.dependencies.dcf(which="all")))
>> install.packages(pkgs)
>>
>> And would not require to install custom packages or shell scripts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jan Gorecki
>>
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