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Does anyone need to install an R package which is used by another package as importFrom(.,.)?

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Mohamad S. Hasan • 0

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Hi,

I developed an R package called "OPWeight", now in Bioconductor issue 395. This package uses qvalue, tibble and boxcox from the packages qvalue, tibble, and MASS, resectively by the command importFrom(..., ...). If anyone wants to use the package "OPWeight", will OPWeight automatically install qvalue, tibble, and MASS?

Thank you

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 7.4 years ago by Lluís Revilla Sancho ▴ 760 • written 7.4 years ago by Mohamad S. Hasan • 0

score 3 · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-28

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Lluís Revilla Sancho ▴ 760

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Depends on where do you write those packages in the DESCRIPTION package, if in Depends or in Imports the behaviour is different. See this, or Hadley page, and the original source describing the Description file. See also this question on Stack Overflow.

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The packages have to be in Imports: or Depends: for them to be mentioned in importFrom(), so once OPWeight is in Bioconductor (or other CRAN-style) repository biocLite() / install.packages() will install them without the user needing to take any additional action.

ADD REPLY • link 7.4 years ago Martin Morgan 25k

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@Morgan Thank you so much!

ADD REPLY • link 7.4 years ago Mohamad S. Hasan • 0

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@ Lluís R Thank you so much for these useful links!

ADD REPLY • link 7.4 years ago Mohamad S. Hasan • 0