Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-31 Thread Lorenzo Busetto
Dear David, sorry for the late reply: I didn't notice your message earlier since it ended-up in a different thread. Thanks for your suggestion: this is actually what I'm currently planning to do, since also my package can work without the GUI. regards, Lorenzo On 20 October 2016 at 15:0

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-20 Thread David C Sterratt
Dear Lorenzo, For my "retistruct" package, which depends on gWidgets2RGtk2, I have gWidgets2RGtk2, gWidgets2 and cairoDevice as "Suggests" and I put the following code in the function that opens the GUI ('retistruct()' in https://github.com/davidcsterratt/retistruct/blob/master/pkg/retistruct/R/re

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-19 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 19/10/2016 4:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 19 October 2016 at 19:29, Berry Boessenkool wrote: | A package I am developing will have one additional (not core) function depending on RCurl. | To keep dependencies low, I am considering to put RCurl in 'Suggests' instead of 'Imports'. | Als

Re: [R-pkg-devel] package in 'Suggests'

2016-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 October 2016 at 19:29, Berry Boessenkool wrote: | A package I am developing will have one additional (not core) function depending on RCurl. | To keep dependencies low, I am considering to put RCurl in 'Suggests' instead of 'Imports'. | Also, I guess some users / systems may not have libcu