From jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu  Wed Mar  5 11:32:16 2003
From: jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu (Jeff Gentry)
Date: Wed Mar  5 17:33:51 2003
Subject: [Rd] CRAN scripts?
In-Reply-To: <3E66120A.7359D7D3@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0303051130490.9718-100000@santiam.dfci.harvard.edu>

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> versions, and I don't think require() checks versions. By putting the packages
> in a bundle I am relatively sure a user will get versions of the packages that
> are suppose to work together. Of course, this is a bigger problem than just my
> packages, so a more comprehensive solution would be better.

This is also a problem that reposTools attempts to solve.  Currently when
you try to install/update/download a package from a repository, it will
compare dependencies (listed in the "Depends" field of DESCRIPTION) and
retriee the specified packages/versions.


[Rd] CRAN scripts?
Jeff Gentry