But suppose I want to write something like: "this package is 10 million times better than my other package [Foo] because that one will eat your children" - or "in contrast to the package [Bar], this package is for continuous data, while that one is for discrete data, so they don't interoperate".
It wouldn't make sense to Depend or Suggest or Import the [Foo] or [Bar] package, but if I didn't, the doc-building process will (apparently - I haven't tried it myself) warn about the link being broken. I can think of several different ways to address this if there isn't an existing way (e.g. create a generic SeeAlso dependency field; use a different syntax for citing packages that aren't dependencies of one sort or another, etc.), but obviously they'd need the blessing of the people maintaining the tools & specs. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters Phone: 651-848-7712 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com http://labs.thomsonreuters.com On 1/27/11 4:12 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm putting together an R package. In explaining how it works (in the >>Rd >> files), I want to refer to another package. The other package is not >>used >> anywhere in the actual code nor in the examples. So, there is no reason >>to >> include the other package in the Depends, Suggests, or Imports lines of >>the >> DESCRIPTION file. People will be able to use my package without >>actually >> installing the other package. >> >> However, "R CMD check" warns about "Missing link(s)" when it is >>checking the >> cross references in the Rd files. >> >> What is the preferred way to make this warning go away? > >Follow the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. There is a 3-item bullet >point in ยง1.1.1 following > > 'The general rules are' > >and your claims contradict the third point. > >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Kevin >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > >-- >Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >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
