Message-ID: <43302B02.5030201@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Date: 2005-09-20T15:30:10Z
From: Paul Gilbert
Subject: Shy Suggestion?
In-Reply-To: <m2d5n3hiyw.fsf@macaroni.local>
Seth Falcon wrote:
>On 20 Sep 2005, rgentlem at fhcrc.org wrote:
>
>
>>As I said above, and will try to emphasize, I really do not want R
>>CMD check to do any checking of Uses (unless asked to do
>>so). Developers that use Uses need to make sure that their package
>>works and passes R CMD check whether the package is there or not.
>>
>>
>
>One of the potential gotchas with the current Suggests and R CMD check
>setup is that developers cannot easily test whether or not their package
>behaves well (e.g. the examples fail gracefully) when packages listed
>in Suggests are not available.
>
>As a package developer, I'd like easy ways to check my package under
>the "everything is there" scenario and under the "only the minimum
>requirements are available" scenario.
>
I suspect a lot of us are doing this by using
>Achim Zeileis wrote:
> if(require(foo)) {
> x <- foo(...)
> bar(x)
> }
>
>
and not putting foo in "Suggests." Robert's solution will solve this by
having us put foo in "Uses," but then will "Suggests" still have a
purpose? Perhaps it would be better just to return to what many of us
thought was the original meaning of "Suggests."
I related problem is that if there are circular "Suggests" I think there
is a problem.
Paul
>
>+ seth
>
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