[Rd] The Depends: field of a package is now used by library()

[Wolfgang Huber]

> On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
>>In R-devel, the Depends: field in the DESCRIPTION file is now used by
>>library() to load the named packages before the current package, and
>>also to set up the environment to save images and prepare for lazy
>>loading.
> 

Are circular dependencies allowed?
Or do they need to be broken, e.g. by replacing one of the edges in a 
loop by a "suggests"?

  Best wishes
    Wolfgang

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