Just don't run those examples on machines lacking the Suggests packages. With roxygen2 it's as easy as @examplesIf requireNamespace(p, quietly=TRUE).
On Thu, May 8, 2025, 8:19 AM Juan Antonio Garcia Martin < ja.gar...@cnb.csic.es> wrote: > Dear mantainers, > > I have a question, since one of my packages currently does not pass the > onSuggest special check. > > Two functions of my package require some of the suggested packages > either in CRAN (DiagrammeR, DiagrammeRsvg and rsvg) or Bioconductor ( > rtracklayer and GenomicRanges), also listed in the suggest section. > > The functions detect whether the suggested packages are installed and > available, and return an error message indicating that the packages > required to use the function. > > In fact DiagrammeR uses the same approach, the function export_graph > requires both DiagrammeRsvg and rsvg, but they are not listed in the > imports, it just returns a message when they are not installed. > > I have the option of removing the examples, or printing the same > messages but returning from the functions instead of using stop. What is > the preferred behavior in these cases? > > Best regards, > Juan Antonio > > > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
