On 4 August 2016 at 11:46, Paul Gilbert wrote: | If my package has a test that needs another package, but that package is | not needed in the /R code of my package, then I indicate it as | "Suggests", not as "Depends" nor as "Imports". If that package is not | available when I run R CMD check, should the test pass?
Wrong question. Better question: Should the test be running? My preference is for only inside of a requireNamespace() (or equivalent) block as the package is not guaranteed to be present. In theory. In practice people seem to unconditionally install it anyway, and think that is a good idea. I disagree on both counts but remain in the vocal minority. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
