From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Dec 12 20:19:06 2012
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:19:06 +0000
Subject: [Rd] =?windows-1252?q?SystemRequirements=92_field?=
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On 12/12/2012 18:33, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that the ?SystemRequirements? field in a
> package DESCRIPTION file is purely descriptive, there are no standard
> elements that can be extracted by parsing it and used automatically?

No.

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