On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> "Greg" == Warnes, Gregory R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:18:29 -0400 writes: > > Greg> I have a revised version of the gregmisc package, > Greg> which I've converted into a package bundle each of > Greg> which has a namespace: gplots, gmodels, gdata, > Greg> gtoools. Of course, there are interdependencies among > Greg> these namespaces: > > Greg> gsun374: /tmp [11]> cd gregmisc/ > Greg> gsun374: gregmisc [12]> grep import */NAMESPACE > Greg> gdata/NAMESPACE:importFrom(gtools, odd, invalid, mixedsort) > Greg> gmodels/NAMESPACE:importFrom(MASS, ginv) > Greg> gplots/NAMESPACE:importFrom(gtools, invalid) > Greg> gplots/NAMESPACE:importFrom(gtools, odd) > Greg> gplots/NAMESPACE:importFrom(gdata, nobs) > > since nobody else has answered yet (and a considerable portion > of R-core is traveling this week) : > > If I understand correctly, your basic package 'gtools' and the > dependency you need is > > gplots --> gdata --> gtools > \----->----/ > > Have you made sure to use the proper 'Depends: ' entries in > the DESCRIPTION(.in) files of your bundle packages ? > > This works fine if the packages are *not* in a bundle, right? > > Greg> Under R-1.9.1, this package bundle passes R CMD check > Greg> and installs happily. However, under yesterday's > Greg> R-2.0.0-alpha, the package fails to install (& hence > Greg> pass CMD CHECK) with the error > > Greg> ** preparing package for lazy loading > Greg> Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) > Greg> : > Greg> There is no package called 'gdata' > Greg> Execution halted > Greg> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'gplots' > > Greg> because the gdata package is the last in the bundle to > Greg> be installed, so it is not yet present. > > Greg> So, what is the proper way to handle this? Is there > Greg> some way to manually specify the package install order? > > Well, isn't the order in the 'Contains:' field of the bundle > DESCRIPTION file used?
I believe so (but am in Slovenia). We have ways to resolve dependencies for non-bundles (new in 2.0.0), but for bundles we assume the order given by the author(s) is the correct one. -- 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
