[Rcpp-devel] Use of "Depends: Rcpp" in packages using Rcpp

[French, Joshua]

Davor,

I¹m not sure if this question is in reference to an email from Brian
Ripley, but I was under the impression that we should include Rcpp and/or
RcppArmadillo in Depends so that it is not installed for binary versions
of the packages.  The following excerpt is from an email recently sent out
by Professor Ripley:

³As far as I can see, these packages [packages that link to BH,
RcppArmadillo and/or RcppEigen] are using only the headers provided by BH,
RcppArmadillo and/or RcppEigen.

As the latter are quite large packages, it is desirable that they are not
installed for binary (OS X/Windows) installs, which will happen if they
are listed only in the LinkingTo field.

Some people have them in other fields to impose a version requirement:
this is supported in LinkingTo as from R 3.0.2.  So use something like

Depends R (>= 3.0.2), Rcpp
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo (>= 0.2.34)



Joshua
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On 1/6/14, 5:58 PM, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
>On 6 January 2014 at 16:30, Davor Cubranic wrote:
>| The Rcpp-package vignette says to use "Depends: Rcpp" in the
>DESCRIPTION of packages that use Rcpp to indicate the dependency and
>"LinkingTo: Rcpp" to indicate the use of headers. Is "Depends" really
>necessary? If the dependent package needs to use R code, it can be done
>with "Imports" without the side-effect of attaching Rcpp's namespace. And
>since R 3.0.2, the version dependency information can be expressed in
>"LinkingTo".
>
>Sure.  "Do as I do, not do as I say".
>
>RcppArmadillo, for example, uses this:
>
>  Depends: R (>= 2.14.0)
>  LinkingTo: Rcpp
>  Imports: Rcpp
>
>No Depends, but LinkingTo and Import.
>
>Documentation patches welcome, as always.
> 
>Dirk
>
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