> Maybe also useful to distinguish between package check and INSTALL, where > during the former the Suggests: package must be present (modulo setting > additional flags) but in the latter may not be. The Bioconductor build > system, for instance, would install RepitoolsExamples before running R CMD > check Repitools. A user might successfully install Repitools without > installing RepitoolsExamples.
There's also the case a suggested package isn't available for a specific platform, the CRAN builders will still build it. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel