On your own system, try
install.packages("foo", dependencies=...)
with the dependencies=
argument is documented as
dependencies: logical indicating to also install uninstalled packages
which these packages depend on/link to/import/suggest (and so
on recursively). Not used if ‘repos = NULL’. Can also be a
character vector, a subset of ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
"LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances")’.
Only supported if ‘lib’ is of length one (or missing), so it
is unambiguous where to install the dependent packages. If
this is not the case it is ignored, with a warning.
The default, ‘NA’, means ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
"LinkingTo")’.
‘TRUE’ means (as from R 2.15.0) to use ‘c("Depends",
"Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests")’ for ‘pkgs’ and
‘c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo")’ for added
dependencies: this installs all the packages needed to run
‘pkgs’, their examples, tests and vignettes (if the package
author specified them correctly).
so you probably want a value TRUE
.
In your package, list what is needed in Depends:
, see the
Writing R Extensions manual which is pretty clear on this.