[Rd] Stub packages will go shortly

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The stub packages

	ctest eda lqs mle modreg mva nls stepfun ts

will be removed from the R-devel sources during the next week.  They are
already special-cased in library() and are no longer installed.

This does affect the many package maintainers who have declared a 
dependence on one of those packages in the Depends: field of their 
DESCRIPTION file -- such packages now fail R CMD check under a fresh 
installation of R-devel.

As the standard packages (base tools utils graphics stats methods grid
splines stats4 tcltk) are guaranteed to be available in every R
installation, it is not necessary to include them in the Depends: field.  
However, it is a good idea to require() them (or import their namespace),
and often necessary.

Please look over the Depends: field in your packages and check it is still 
appropriate.

An incomplete list of failing packages is

NISTnls PHYLOGR Rcmdr bim car cclust clim.pact dse e1071 exactRankTests 
forward fpc gbm grasper maptree mscalib multidim mvnormtest pastecs pcurve 
pear pgam sgeostat simpleboot spatstat splancs tseries vcd 

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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