>>>>> Lorenzo Busetto <lbus...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:04:53 +0100 writes:
> Dear all, a quick question:
> while preparing for a CRAN submission, am I supposed to
> include a "configure" file and list for system
> requirements also if those system requirements "come from"
> the packages that I import ?
If the requirements are *only* in these packages, and not
(directly) in your package's functions,
you should *not* duplicate the checks (nor the entries in
DESCRIPTION),
by the same logic that you should not list 'Depends', 'Imports',
'Suggests', etc of those packages.
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich
> Asking this because the "configure" and system
> requirements are already present in the imported packages,
> so my configuration check would duplicate what is already
> done while installing the dependencies.
> sorry if this is dumb...
> Lorenzo
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