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[Bioc-devel] Help with R CMD check NOTEs

Hi,
On 10/18/2017 09:19 AM, Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
It's important to realize that this will remove all the functionalities
provided by these packages from the search path e.g. your users will
need to explicitly library(MASS) or library(parallel) etc... before
they can access things defined in these packages. The code in your
examples (man page and vignettes) and possibly in your unit tests will
also need to be modified to reflect this.

In other words putting everything in Imports can hurt
usability/friendliness. The approach should be more nuanced. It's
good that the 'R CMD check' NOTE reminds us about the Depends vs
Imports trade-off but for Bioconductor packages the choices made
by the developers will not always please 'R CMD check'.

Cheers,
H.