From w.huber at dkfz-heidelberg.de  Thu Aug 12 17:16:38 2004
From: w.huber at dkfz-heidelberg.de (Wolfgang Huber)
Date: Thu Aug 12 17:18:09 2004
Subject: [Rd] The Depends: field of a package is now used by library()
In-Reply-To: <200408120942.20270.deepayan@stat.wisc.edu>
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	<200408120942.20270.deepayan@stat.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <411B89D6.1040108@dkfz-heidelberg.de>

> On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
>>In R-devel, the Depends: field in the DESCRIPTION file is now used by
>>library() to load the named packages before the current package, and
>>also to set up the environment to save images and prepare for lazy
>>loading.
> 

Are circular dependencies allowed?
Or do they need to be broken, e.g. by replacing one of the edges in a 
loop by a "suggests"?

  Best wishes
    Wolfgang

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[Rd] The Depends: field of a package is now used by library()
Wolfgang Huber