On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 19:03, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel
<r-devel@r-project.org> wrote:
>
> I had added a vignette to the coxme package and all worked well locally, but 
> it failed at
> CRAN.     The issue is that the vignette involves using coxme for pedigree 
> data, it
> doesn't work without the kinship2 package, and I hadn't put in the necessary 
> "if
> (require(...." logic.
>
> The question is, how do I make the entire vignette conditional? If the 
> package isn't
> available, there is nothing to run.  The latex itself will fail when it can't 
> find the
> figures  (I float them), and the parts that don't will end up as inane 
> discussion of
> material that isn't there.

This is what I do in my packages:
https://github.com/r-simmer/simmer/blob/master/vignettes/simmer-08-philosophers.Rmd#L21

If SweaveOpts accept code in the same way, you can set something like

\SweaveOpts{eval=requireNamespace("kinship2", quietly=TRUE)}

Iñaki

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