>>>>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:30:24 -0700, >>>>> Geoff Jentry (GJ) wrote:
> 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. That is not the case, the checks will only get a NOTE that PkgB doesn't exist. E.g., my package flexclust suggests multicore, which is not available for windows. Still both live happily on CRAN, and of course there is a windows version of flexclust available from CRAN. Best, Fritz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
