[Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

[Steven McKinney]

If you add the other package to Suggests, what problems do you see?
Adding the other package to Suggests seems most appropriate, your
use case seems very similar to packages discussed in a vignette.

Steven McKinney

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From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley [ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: January 27, 2011 2:12 PM
To: Kevin R. Coombes
Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm putting together an R package.  In explaining how it works (in the Rd
> files), I want to refer to another package.  The other package is not used
> anywhere in the actual code nor in the examples. So, there is no reason to
> include the other package in the Depends, Suggests, or Imports lines of the
> DESCRIPTION file.  People will be able to use my package without actually
> installing the other package.
>
> However, "R CMD check" warns about "Missing link(s)" when it is checking the
> cross references in the Rd files.
>
> What is the preferred way to make this warning go away?

Follow the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.  There is a 3-item bullet
point in §1.1.1 following

     'The general rules are'

and your claims contradict the third point.

>
> Thanks in advance,
>    Kevin
>
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