On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 15:46 +0100, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > If you want to link to a package in the documentation, you'll have to > add it to Suggests.
This doesn't make any sense. If you don't use the code from that package anywhere, then a cross-reference to that package should not require the extra dependency in Suggests. Cross references should be able to point to other functionality that might be useful to the user, or might add extra depth of understanding to a concept. If the user doesn't have the package installed, no worries, it is just a cross reference. The requirement you are suggesting is also not discussed in Writing R Extensions: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-exts.html#Cross_002dreferences In fact, it explicitly allows links to potentially uninstalled packages. Regards, Brian ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
