On 22 October 2015 at 22:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm planning on adding some new WebGL functionality to the rgl package, but > it will pull in a very large number of dependencies. Since many people won't > need it, I'd like to make the new parts optional.
> Can people suggest other packages that solve this kind of problem in a good > way? I had the same issue with the assertive package: it was getting big, and not everyone wanted all the functionality. The solution was to create several smaller packages with individual components of functionality, for example assertive.base contains the bare-minimum functionality; assertive.numbers contains functionality related to numbers, etc. Then the assertive package imports all the functions from the component packages and reexports them. That way people who want a small footprint (mostly other package developers) can specify only what they need, and people who don't care (mostly end users) can just type library(assertive) and get access to everything. -- Regards, Richie Learning R 4dpiecharts.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
