On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Hadley Wickham wrote:
To me this reads as being in the wheelhouse of what 'Suggests' is supposed
to imply, as per the R Extensions manual. The problem here is that if PkgB
is put down as 'Suggests', it is required for R CMD check to pass which
seems to defeat the purpose of this exercise a bit.
No, because R CMD check is only run by the developer, not the user.
It's not only run by the developer, it's also run by CRAN. The situation
might happen where for a particular platform (e.g. Windows) that PkgB
doesn't exist. It'd be nice to be able to avoid a situation where PkgA
can't exist for that platform simply because PkgB - which isn't even
necessarily required for PkgA to be used - doesn't exist for it.
-J
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