Message-ID: <B283F9DC-B4D9-4D44-8910-1AE855840FD2@r-project.org>
Date: 2010-01-15T17:34:08Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: optional package dependency
In-Reply-To: <1263575889.26202.22.camel@corn.betterworld.us>
On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:18 , Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:19 +0100, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> The idea is that maintainers typically want to
>> fully check their functionality, suggesting to force suggests by
>> default.
> This might be the nub of the problem. There are different audiences,
> even for R CMD check.
>
> The maintainer probably wants to check all functionality. Even then,
> there is an issue if functionality differs by platform.
>
> CRAN probably wants to check all functionality.
>
> An individual user just wants to check the functionality they use.
>
> For example, if someone doesn't want to run my package distributed,
> but
> wants to see if it works (R CMD check), they need to be able to avoid
> the potentially onerous requirement to install MPI.
>
... that what's why you can decide to run check without forcing
suggests - it's entirely up to you / the user as Kurt pointed out ...
Cheers,
Simon