[Gretl-devel] Re: towards packages with R in the background

Hi, at the conference we agreed that in the future contributed function packages could use 'foreign' blocks that use R. (Just to be clear: the big difference here is "contributed". A function package per se can already use whatever is possible in hansl, for private use. But currently it won't be accepted to the package server if it relies on a foreign language.) We also discussed that the package author must specify the version requirement for R itself and then specify the needed R packages (along with their own versions). I would like to propose a way to put this information in the package's spec file, something like this [...]