[Rd] Re R CMD check checking in development version of R

Gavin Simpson ucfagls at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 00:34:31 CEST 2014


On 27 August 2014 16:25, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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> Again, I am happy to be re-educated on this though :-)
>>
>
> If you like, you can fill the search path with lots of packages (and make
> masking of functions more likely), but you shoudl really import into your
> namesoace so that unanticipated order of packages in your search path won't
> break your package.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>

I do already do that (well, I had missed a few which R-devel CMD check
showed to me). I have a corresponding importFrom(vegan, ....) in my
NAMESPACE even with Depends: vegan in DESCRIPTION.

What I'm pushing back on is the notion that *no* packages should be in
Depends.

Cheers,

G

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