Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-01-28 12:18 PM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: The situation I am talking about is essentially the one in your example. If package [Bar] is not installed on the machine where R CMD chedk is running, then putting Suggests: Bar in the DESCRIPTION file causes R CMD check to fail, with the

Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-28 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
The situation I am talking about is essentially the one in your example. If package [Bar] is not installed on the machine where R CMD chedk is running, then putting Suggests: Bar in the DESCRIPTION file causes R CMD check to fail, with the error message * checking package dependencies

[Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
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

Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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

Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-27 Thread Ken.Williams
But suppose I want to write something like: this package is 10 million times better than my other package [Foo] because that one will eat your children - or in contrast to the package [Bar], this package is for continuous data, while that one is for discrete data, so they don't interoperate. It

Re: [Rd] use of depends, suggests, etc

2011-01-27 Thread Steven McKinney
-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley [rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: January 27, 2011 2:12 PM To: Kevin R. Coombes Cc: r-devel@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