NOTE: unstated dependencies in examples

So other people from the administration tell you which software to use
for teaching? And what happens if they tell you only Excel is
available?
... weird ...

On the contrary, I should say: very common. We have hardly any control over
what is installed on the application servers at our university (let alone
how well it is installed).

You can still use the old version there, if the new version depends on
R

 >= 2.14.0. The old version will stay in the binary repositories for

old
versions of R and in the package archives of the source repository as
well. I think Duncan explained that already.

Then what about new features that don't depend on parallel? Maintenance hell
is born, just because you effectively force somebody to fork (True, the R
builders are not the ones forcing people to stay on some "old" version, yet
this scenario is not that strange that it should be ditched without regard).

A second point is that the package would not *depend* or anything on

R>=

2.14.0.

But it depends on it: it won't pass the checks for R < 2.14.0.

Somewhat silly if it only depends on it because of the check, no?


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