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.
How would this relate to namespaces? For instance, lattice imports grid (and a few things from stats and graphics). If I keep grid in the depends field, loading lattice does a require(grid), which defeats one of the purposes of having namespaces. If I leave it out, nothing bad seems to happen as long as grid is installed, but there should be some indication in the DESCRIPTION that that grid is a requirement. None of the other fields seem appropriate. Deepayan ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel