This is a configurable option 'R_check_force_suggests' documented in 'Writing R Extensions'.
This package should be using Enhances: Rmpi, it seems. On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Herve Pages wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering why I get the following error message: > > * checking package dependencies ... ERROR > Packages required but not available: > Rmpi > > when I run 'R CMD check' on a package that _suggests_ Rmpi? > Why isn't it OK to not have all the suggested packages installed? > > Maybe one of the 3 following behaviours would be more appropriate: > > a) Having the error saying something like: > > Package suggested but not available: > Rmpi > > b) Make this a warning instead of an error. > > c) Don't do anything at all for suggested packages. > > This issue showed up today while I was checking a new Bioconductor package: > the package suggests Rmpi but the vignette and the examples don't use it. If > I remove > Rmpi from the Suggests field then 'R CMD check' runs all the examples and > re-create > the vignette with no problem. Most users will not have Rmpi on their machine > neither > will they be interested in getting into the trouble of installing it. 'Most users' will not be running 'R CMD check', of course. > The package I was checking suggests Rmpi only because it contains 1 function > that tries > to use it if it's installed but will work perfectly fine otherwise. > In this case it seems reasonable to have Rmpi in the Suggests field but this > will > make 'R CMD check' to fail which is problematic in the context of automated > builds :-/ > If 'R CMD check' can't be a little bit more relaxed about this, then I guess > we will > need to remove Rmpi from the Suggests field, but then 'R CMD check' will > complain that: > > * checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... WARNING > 'library' or 'require' calls not declared from: > Rmpi > > which is always better than getting an ERROR. > > Thanks! > > H. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
