[Rd] (no) circular dependency

[Adrian Dușa]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:

> In that scenario, I would expect that QCA would suggest Venn and Venn
> would suggest QCA. Then there's no circular dependency problem.
>

Right, this is exactly what I was pointing myself in the first email:

- make package A dependent on package B (so that the namespace of B is
automatically available when loading package A)
- make package B "Suggest" package A (not "Depend" which leads to circular
dependency), and that if I am not mistaken will lead to automatically
install package A when package B is installed
- use requireNamespace("A") inside the function(s) of package B which uses
functions of package A
- directly use A::foo() inside those functions

The only trouble with "Suggest" is the namespace of A is not automatically
loaded with package B (the reverse would work because package A depends on
package B).
So the only other option that I found was to make use of requireNamespace()
and use A::foo() inside the functions of B.

Or as Hadley advices, make both packages A and B suggest each other and use
requireNamespace() inside the functions of both. That would also work.

Adrian

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