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[R-pkg-devel] GSL update on CRAN

Ege Rubak 
Hi,

It may be a big task to ship all of GSL with your R package, and since 
it is a large standard library which is "easy" to install on most 
systems, I doubt that it's worth the effort. I would recommend putting 
`GSL (>=2.3)` in `SystemRequirements` in your DESCRIPTION file.

As you point out, this requires that the CRAN team can find the time to 
update GSL on their machines. Uwe often sees things on this list, so you 
may be lucky that he replies directly when he has time (the CRAN people 
tend to have busy day jobs also).

If you don't hear anything on this list in the near future you could 
also try to submit your package to CRAN with the message that you are 
aware that it fails on their Windows machines due to an old version of 
GSL which you would like to be updated if possible. If done in a 
respectful manner I think this should be OK and not wasting their time, 
but others on this list may have better suggestions of how to approach 
this issue.

Best wishes,
Ege
On 11/09/2019 11.49, Raphael Hartmann wrote:

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