From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jun  7 12:55:52 2012
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:55:52 +0100
Subject: [Rd] 7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 6
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On 07/06/2012 11:40, Matthew Dowle wrote:
>
> Prof Ripley wrote :
>> That Depends line is about source installs.
>
> I can't see that documented in either Writing R Extensions or
> ?install.packages. Is it somewhere else? I thought Depends applied to
> binaries from CRAN too, which is the default method on Windows and Mac.

That field is documented under the description of a *source* package 
(see the first line of section 1.1, and it is in that section) and is 
simply copied from the source package for binary installs.  It is the 
extra line added to the DESCRIPTION file, e.g.

Built: R 2.15.0; x86_64-pc-mingw32; 2012-04-02 09:27:07 UTC; windows

that tells you the version a binary package was built under 
(approximately for R-patched and R-devel), and library() checks.

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[Rd] 7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 6
Prof Brian Ripley