The R-exts manual says about 'Suggests' field in package DESCRIPTION: "The optional `Suggests' field uses the same syntax as `Depends' and lists packages that are not necessarily needed."
However, this seems to be a suggestion you cannot refuse. If you suggest packages: (a line from DESCRIPTION): Suggests: MASS, ellipse, rgl, mgcv, akima, lattice This is what happens: $ /tmp/R-alpha/bin/R CMD check vegan * checking for working latex ... OK * using log directory '/home/jarioksa/devel/R/vegan.Rcheck' * using R version 2.2.0, 2005-09-19 * checking for file 'vegan/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * this is package 'vegan' version '1.7-75' ... clip ... * checking package dependencies ... ERROR Packages required but not available: ellipse rgl akima In my cultural context suggesting a package means that it is not necessarily needed and the check should not fail, although some functionality would be unavailable without those packages. I want the package to pass the tests in a clean standard environment without forcing anybody to load any extra packages. Is there a possibility to be modest and shy in suggestions so that it would be up to the user to get those extra packages needed without requiring them in R CMD check? I stumbled on this with earlier versions of R, and then my solution was to suggest nothing. cheers, jari oksanen -- Jari Oksanen -- Dept Biology, Univ Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland Ph. +358 8 5531526, cell +358 40 5136529, fax +358 8 5531061 email [EMAIL PROTECTED], homepage http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
