From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Mon Jan 20 17:34:42 2014
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:34:42 -0500
Subject: [Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] My first package
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On Jan 20, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2014, at 14:31, Axel Urbiz <axel.urbiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> I'm planning to submit my first package to R, and although I read all the
>> documentation, I'm not very clear on the following 2 items, from which I'd
>> appreciate your guidance:
>> 
>> 
>> 1)I understand it is suggested to use the R dev version to build the
>> package.
> 
> Is it?

Yes


>  this is news to me.  I have a grand total of 2 packages up and I never ever used R-devel, and never ever had a problem, had a report of a problem or had a note from CRAn about my packages not being ok because I built them with R-relase (or whatever it might be called) and not R-devel.
> 

You got lucky so far ;). See earlier post - you're answering to an already answered thread.

Cheers,
Simon



> BW
> 
> F
> 
> 
> 
>> Which one specifically should I use to build a package on a Mac
>> OS? How about package dependencies, which version should I install on the R
>> dev version (and where should I get them)?
>> 
>> 
>> 2) Not sure if this one belongs to this list. Does licensing follow the
>> logic of "inheritance" (i.e. if all the package dependencies of my package
>> are "GPL-2 | GPL-3", does my package need to use the same license agreement?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Axel.
>> 
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[Rd] [R-SIG-Mac] My first package
Simon Urbanek