On 28 April 2016 at 16:41, Dalthorp, Daniel wrote: | I've written a fairly elaborate package (called "eoa") that relies on | functions from several other packages. I've built the package into a zip | file on Windows using Hadley's devtools::build(binary = T) and have sent | the zip to a couple dozen people for testing. My package installs fine, but | some people are having trouble loading it. After library(eoa), they get | something like: | | Error: could not load package tcltk2 | | In DESCRIPTION file, I use | | Depends: tcltk, tcltk2, tkrplot | Imports: actuar, | graphics, | gsl, | MASS, | Matrix, | tensorA | | If, after getting the "could not load" message, the user installs the | required packages by hand, everything works fine. | | My understanding was that both the "Depends: " and the "Imports: " lines in | DESCRIPTION file direct R to automatically install required packages that | haven't been previously installed. | | It doesn't appear to be working that way for me. There must be a simple | solution that I am obviously missing....
I think this would work if you users installed from a _repository_ rather than a single zip file. So in a sense I feat it is a flaw in the setup you provided. You can build repositories, both local / private and visible / public, using the drat package: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/drat.html, also on CRAN. Else, just have them execute a helper script you devise.... Dirk | Any help would be greatly appreciated! | | -Dan | | -- | Dan Dalthorp, PhD | USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center | Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 | 3200 SW Jefferson Way | Corvallis, OR 97331 | ph: 541-750-0953 | ddalth...@usgs.gov | | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
