On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Auke Booij <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright, discarding dependencies. Some (a lot of) CRAN-style packages > depend on libraries which already get installed as part of the R > program. These dependencies should, for our purposes anyway, simply be > discarded, but to do this I do need to know what libraries are part of > the default R install, which means listing R's files, and I'd like you > guys to tell me how to do this. As far as I can see, the following are > the options and I'd like to hear which you would prefer: > -use "qlist" or "equery files" > -read it from the vdb > -hardcode the list of builtin R libraries > -read it from the filesystem directly (note: this would mean that some > correct dependencies are discarded as well, but it is a very > lightweight and independent solution) > Pros, cons? Opinions wanted!
Whilst the core libraries don't change that frequently I think hard-coding is a bad idea, so doing it dynamically would be best IMO, of course if this takes a long time its undesirable so something that is dynamic and quick, but perhaps most importantly works. Which of those that is I counted really tell you though, sorry. Keep up the good work, Neil -- "... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and his ideas." - Sir Ronald A. Fisher (1956) Email - [email protected] Website - http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/ Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/
