If I'm not mistaken, when you put the other package in the "Depends:" field of DESCRIPTION, the other package will be loaded first, before your package is loaded. So you shouldn't have to put require/library anywhere else.
-roger Gavin Simpson wrote: > Dear list, > > The help page for library/require contains the following paragraph in > the section "Packages that require other packages": > > The source code for a package that requires one or more other > packages should have a call to 'require', preferably near the > beginning of the source, and of course before any code that uses > functions, classes or methods from the other package. > > Now, I'm being very dense today, but I don't know where to put such a > call to require. > > My package has added methods for a generic function supplied by another > package. I have listed this package in the Depends field in my > DESCRIPTION. > > What do I need to do to have the package that my package depends on be > attached when I call library or require to attach my package? > > Apologies for being dense... > > Thanks, > > G ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
