We do just use the package if it's installed. No demanding anywhere. Alex
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 9:36 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 20 February 2020 at 17:51, Alex Branham via ESS-help wrote: > | On Wed 19 Feb 2020 at 18:20, Shreyas Ragavan <shre...@fastmail.com> > wrote: > | > | >> You need to install the lintr package. > | > > | > So ESS actually needs the R package lintr installed to enable linting. > | > It seems strange to me that I have to open R and install a package to > | > get an 'IDE' functionality. Perhaps I am mistaken in my thinking. > | > | This is pretty standard behavior, I think. You'll find the same thing > | with Rstudio, IIRC. > > There are many shades of grey possible between pitch black and white. > > One could just use the package if found installed. Demanding it to be > present > is quite a bit more strict, and I don't think I'd that. But hey, your > project, not mine. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
