[Rd] Listing Packages in Depends or Imports

Dario Strbenac dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au
Fri Jun 27 04:00:08 CEST 2014


Hello,

The Writing R Extensions manual gives confusing advice. Compare 

Packages listed in imports or importFrom directives in the NAMESPACE file should almost always be in ‘Imports’ and not ‘Depends’. 

with 

Almost always packages mentioned in ‘Depends’ should also be imported from in the NAMESPACE file

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia



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