On 13 June 2017 at 13:01, Berry Boessenkool wrote:
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| Hi,
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| I have a package A. Some of its functions are used in package B.
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| B imports A in the DESCRIPTION, both are on CRAN.
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| A has a function fff where I want to add some optional functionality.
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| The problem: that optional stuff uses code in package B.
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| I feel like I have two bad options:
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| - put fff in a package C that imports both A and B.
| However, C would really be too small to be on CRAN.
| Also, some people already know of A::fff and I'm rather inclined to keep it
there.
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| - put B in Suggests and make the optional part of fff conditional on
requireNamespace("B").
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| But then B imports A while A suggests B, which sounds dangerous.
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| Any ideas on what I could/should do here?
My Google-Fu is weak this morning but I think we just that discussion here.
Usual tip: Disentangle. Create package C with common code. Have A use
it. Have B use A. No cycles.
Dirk
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