From J.Gorecki at wit.edu.pl  Tue Jun 14 18:29:06 2016
From: J.Gorecki at wit.edu.pl (=?UTF-8?B?SmFuIEfDs3JlY2tp?=)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:29:06 +0100
Subject: [Rd] new function to tools/utils package: dependencies based on
 DESCRIPTION file
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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
> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
> Kliniekstraat 25
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> Belgium
>
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> asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what
> the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
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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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