[R-pkg-devel] nit-picking about CRAN repository policy
On 2022-05-07 6:54 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
While I of course do not speak for CRAN, allow me (given I've harped on this beat before [1]) to record a strong disagreement here: "unconditionally used" is simply not reflecting the conditional nature of a Suggests, nomatter where it happens in the package. Vignettes are no different from examples. So I say thanks to CRAN for having gradually sharpened the language in the CRAN Repo Policu over the years and for now adding even more explicit tests. Dirk [1] One such post is "Suggests != Depends which is at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/22/#suggests_is_not_depends
Dirk and Simon: to be clear, I'm not objecting to the new tests, just to the fact that they don't match the published repository policy. (and conditioned on a mildly annoying CRAN interaction as described elsewhere in the thread <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2022q2/008040.html>). cheers Ben