Add libpq within a DESCRIPTION.SystemRequirements#137
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…ols a chance to discover RPostgreSQL has a system dependency, and to suggest the OS specific packages to install; for instance the renv dependency manager.
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Add libpq within a DESCRIPTION.SystemRequirements entry to provide tools a chance to discover RPostgreSQL has a system dependency, and to suggest the OS specific packages to install; for instance the
renvdependency manager.Some references to this usage in the community:
Example specification in a package: https://crandb.r-pkg.org/igraph
I'm new to the R community and have mainly been focused on packaging R apps in various forms, so I'm sensitive to the quagmire that is the R communities' OS dependency woes. I also see a number of issues against this repository about a failure to have
libpqinstalled, so hopefully this addition can help the tool-chains do the needful.I'm not sure how tightly this R package is tied to the
libpqversions, but if there is a desire to notate a version, I'm happy to add; e.g.(>= 10)or 14, or?