From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Mon Mar 20 08:42:59 2006
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:42:59 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Package dependencies when submitting to CRAN: policies?
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hadley wickham wrote:

> What is the policy for submitting packages that depend on external
> non-R code?  We'd like to add Rggobi2 to CRAN, but since the CRAN
> machine won't have GGobi, I wanted to check what the policy/procedures
> are.

I think it is worth to discuss this topic with the CRAN maintainers 
(hence Kurt Hornik, in particular).

I will come back to this in a separate thread off-list.

Uwe Ligges


> Regards,
> 
> Hadley



[Rd] Package dependencies when submitting to CRAN: policies?
Uwe Ligges