On 11-05-03 12:43 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
Hervé Pagès<hpa...@fhcrc.org>
on Mon, 02 May 2011 11:55:08 -0700 writes:
> Hi, On 11-04-28 07:00 PM, Dario Strbenac wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In my description file, I have an example data package in
>> Suggests: that I've deleted from my library to test what
>> the user who doesn't have it will experience.
>>
>> However, R CMD check won't even pass my package :
>>
>> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
>> Package required but not available: RepitoolsExamples
> ^^^^^^^^ confusing!
> Wouldn't a message like
> Package required for full checking but not available:
> RepitoolsExamples
> be more appropriate and avoid a confusion that we've seen
> for a very long time now?
Sure. But such messages are already produced in current
versions of R,
Not for me. For example, picking up a CRAN package with a
Suggests field:
http://cran.fhcrc.org/web/packages/AICcmodavg/index.html
Then, after downloading the source tarball:
hpages@latitude:~/Downloads$ R-2.13 CMD check AICcmodavg_1.15.tar.gz
* using log directory ‘/home/hpages/Downloads/AICcmodavg.Rcheck’
* using R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
* using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file ‘AICcmodavg/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* checking extension type ... Package
* this is package ‘AICcmodavg’ version ‘1.15’
* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
Package required but not available: lme4
See the information on DESCRIPTION files in the chapter 'Creating R
packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
Cheers,
H.
.. at least they are there in the package checking
source, see
format.check_package_depends() in
src/library/tools/R/QC.R
which has e.g.,
if(length(bad<- x$suggests_but_not_installed)> 1L) {
c(gettext("Packages suggested but not available for checking:"),
....
and similar for 'Enhances' in lieu of 'Suggests'.
If Dario really uses R 2.13.0 (or newer),
and he gets the above error message for a package that is not
required but only suggested,
I think we'd need a clear, ideally simple,
reproducible example, here.
Martin
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