On Wednesday 09 September 2009 Allen S. Rout wrote: > I haven't seen any responses to my package-deps thinking. I'm hoping > that's because everyone read it and said to themselves, "Wow, this > Allen fellow is an utter genius: How profoundly correct he is! ". > > Yeah, right. The probable cause is more like "everyone would like to comment but REAL LIFE (tm) got in the way", at least it was for me. > OK, here's the SRPM of my current state. > > http://nersp.osg.ufl.edu/~asr/media/R2spec-2.6.0-asr.src.rpm > > When I run that against ggplot2, I get a "broad" dependency graph of > 152 packages. That's the list of packages that "should" be installed > to be able to R CMD CHECK all the packages, recursively. Considering that cran has more than 1800 packages I would that this is small subset. ;-) > That fact, the recursive Suggests graph, is why I think any tool that > builds a single spec needs to do the math; because there's no way we > can CHECK a package without doing it. What could be done, depending on the needs found, is to build a python library where both R2spec and your tools use the code from. > - Allen S. Rout -- José Abílio _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
