I would recommend option 2. I have done that when changes to xtable broke some packages. xtable has a number of dependencies but not on the scale of survival. Just 4 packages out of 868 seems minimal to me.
David Scott On 17/02/2021 3:39 am, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel wrote: I am testing out the next release of survival, which involves running R CMD check on 868 CRAN packages that import, depend or suggest it. The survival package has a lot of data sets, most of which are non-trivial real examples (something I'm proud of). To save space I've bundled many of them, .e.g., data/cancer.rda has 19 different dataframes. This caused failures in 4 packages, each because they have a line such as "data(lung)" or data(breast, package= "survival"); and the data() command looks for a file name. This is a question about which option is considered the best (perhaps more of a poll), between two choices 1. unbundle them again (it does save 1/3 of the space, and I do get complaints from R CMD build about size) 2. send notes to the 4 maintainers. The help files for the data sets have the usage documented as "lung" or "breast", and not data(lung), so I am technically legal to claim they have a mistake. A third option to make the data sets a separate package is not on the table. I use them heavily in my help files and test suite, and since survival is a recommended package I can't add library(x) statements for !(x %in% recommended). I am guessing that this would also break many dependent packages. Terry T. -- Terry M Therneau, PhD Department of Health Science Research Mayo Clinic thern...@mayo.edu<mailto:thern...@mayo.edu> "TERR-ree THUR-noh" [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org<mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> -- _________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142, NEW ZEALAND Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz<mailto:d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
