On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > > 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"?
They need to be broken. I only encountered them where Suggests: was appropriate. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
