[R-pkg-devel] package installation fails due to missing package not listed in NAMESPACE

hi,

i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that ggplot2
can not be found:

https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_12
5043_jmvcore_055/00install.out

now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in our
NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling functions:
`ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in ggplot2 themes and for
them to be handled correctly, but packages that build on jmvcore don't
*need* to use ggplot2. so we've been able to avoid adding it as an import,
which is great, because ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check --as-cran
jmvcore`, etc.

however the win-builder is pinging us.

is there a way around this?

with thanks

jonathon

Dear Jonathon,

Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in 
the Suggests:

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature 
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no 
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be 
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does 
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body 
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc 
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    hi,

    i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
    ggplot2 can not be found:

    https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out
    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
    that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

    our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.

    however the win-builder is pinging us.

    is there a way around this?

    with thanks

    jonathon

yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

with thanks

jonathon


On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Dear Jonathon,

Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in
the Suggests:

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    hi,

    i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
    ggplot2 can not be found:

    https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_

125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out

    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/

170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
    that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

    our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.

    however the win-builder is pinging us.

    is there a way around this?

    with thanks

    jonathon

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Try adding requireNamespace("ggplot2") in the function that rely on 
ggplot2.

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature 
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no 
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be 
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does 
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body 
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc 
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

    ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

    with thanks

    jonathon


    On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

    > Dear Jonathon,
    >
    > Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at

    least in

    > the Suggests:
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > Thierry
    >
    > ir. Thierry Onkelinx
    > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for

    Nature

    > and Forest
    > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality

    Assurance

    > Kliniekstraat 25
    > 1070 Anderlecht
    > Belgium
    >
    > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
    > more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
    > able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
    > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
    > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
    > not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a

    given body

    > of data. ~ John Tukey
    >
    > 2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc
    > <mailto:jon at thon.cc <mailto:jon at thon.cc>>>:
    >
    >     hi,
    >
    >     i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it

    complaining that

    >     ggplot2 can not be found:
    >
    >

    https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out
    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    >   

     <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out
    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>>

    >
    >     now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    >     our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    >     functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    >     ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but

    packages

    >     that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    >     able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    >     ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.
    >
    >     our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    >     --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.
    >
    >     however the win-builder is pinging us.
    >
    >     is there a way around this?
    >
    >     with thanks
    >
    >     jonathon
    >
    >     ______________________________________________
    > R-package-devel at r-project.org <mailto:R-package-devel at r-project.org>
    >     <mailto:R-package-devel at r-project.org

    <mailto:R-package-devel at r-project.org>> mailing list

    > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel

    <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>

    >     <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel

    <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel>>

    >
    >

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Try adding requireNamespace("ggplot2") in the function that rely on ggplot2.

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc>:

yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

with thanks

jonathon


On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Dear Jonathon,

Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in
the Suggests:

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    hi,

    i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
    ggplot2 can not be found:

    https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_

125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out

    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/

170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
    that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

    our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.

    however the win-builder is pinging us.

    is there a way around this?

    with thanks

    jonathon

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On 16/05/2017 7:34 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Try adding requireNamespace("ggplot2") in the function that rely on
ggplot2.

That's not enough, even though it might fool the test (I haven't
checked).  Those functions need to condition on the result, i.e. something
like

if (requireNamespace("ggplot2")) ggplot2::ggplot()
else  ... (optional warning that you need it) ...

Duncan Murdoch

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to
say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc>:

yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

with thanks

jonathon


On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Dear Jonathon,

Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in
the Suggests:

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    hi,

    i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
    ggplot2 can not be found:

    https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_

125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out

    <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/

170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
    that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

    our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.

    however the win-builder is pinging us.

    is there a way around this?

    with thanks

    jonathon

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On 16/05/2017 7:34 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Try adding requireNamespace("ggplot2") in the function that rely on
ggplot2.

That's not enough, even though it might fool the test (I haven't
checked).  Those functions need to condition on the result, i.e.
something like

if (requireNamespace("ggplot2")) ggplot2::ggplot()
else  ... (optional warning that you need it) ...

Duncan Murdoch

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for
Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able
to say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of
data.
~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:22 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc>:

yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

with thanks

jonathon


On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:

Dear Jonathon,

Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in
the Suggests:

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature
and Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no
more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be
able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does
not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body
of data. ~ John Tukey

2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc
<mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:

    hi,

    i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
    ggplot2 can not be found:

https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_

125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out

<https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/

170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>

    now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
    our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
    functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
    ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
    that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
    able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
    ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.

    our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
    --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.

    however the win-builder is pinging us.

    is there a way around this?

    with thanks

    jonathon

        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

    [[alternative HTML version deleted]]