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could use more specific information on system requirements to build package
Would it be possible to specify in the DESCRIPTION file the system requirements required to build a package? This is especially pertinent for cases when one is building a docker image from scratch and system libraries are slimmed down to keep the weight of the image down as well.
Are you referring to OS, RAM, number of cpu? that's a good idea but I don't see it commonly done for an R package. Or am I wrong? are you running into specific issue?
My concern was with OS. Compiling the package from our Ubuntu image some tools were missing (). It took me a while to figure out which ones. In my case, I think liblapack3
and liblapack-dev
were the key, along with build-essential
and gfortran
.