Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Gilbert
On 08/04/2016 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: 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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/08/2016 12:55 PM, Bill Denney wrote: On 8/4/2016 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: 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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 04.08.2016 18:55, Bill Denney wrote: On 8/4/2016 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: 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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Bill Denney
On 8/4/2016 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: 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

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/08/2016 11:46 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote: (One question from the thread Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?) I hope not to start another long tangled thread, but I have a basic confusion which I think has a yes/no answer and I would like to know if there is agreement on this point (or is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 04.08.2016 17:46, Paul Gilbert wrote: (One question from the thread Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?) I hope not to start another long tangled thread, but I have a basic confusion which I think has a yes/no answer and I would like to know if there is agreement on this point (or is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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

[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies? - Part 2

2016-08-04 Thread Paul Gilbert
(One question from the thread Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?) I hope not to start another long tangled thread, but I have a basic confusion which I think has a yes/no answer and I would like to know if there is agreement on this point (or is it only me that is confused as usual).