Re: [Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-12 Thread Geoff Jentry
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Friedrich Leisch wrote: That is not the case, the checks will only get a NOTE that PkgB doesn't exist. E.g., my package flexclust suggests multicore, which is not available for windows. Still both live happily on CRAN, and of course there is a windows version of flexclust a

Re: [Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-12 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:30:24 -0700, > Geoff Jentry (GJ) wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> To me this reads as being in the wheelhouse of what 'Suggests' is supposed >>> to imply, as per the R Extensions manual.  The problem here is that if PkgB >>> is put d

Re: [Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff Jentry
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Hadley Wickham wrote: To me this reads as being in the wheelhouse of what 'Suggests' is supposed to imply, as per the R Extensions manual.  The problem here is that if PkgB is put down as 'Suggests', it is required for R CMD check to pass which seems to defeat the purpose of

Re: [Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-11 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Geoff Jentry wrote: > Hi ... > > I came across an old post on R-devel that describes a situation very similar > to one I find myself in: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-December/043917.html > > As you can see in Gregor's example, the situation is that

[Rd] Conditional "Suggests"

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff Jentry
Hi ... I came across an old post on R-devel that describes a situation very similar to one I find myself in: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-December/043917.html As you can see in Gregor's example, the situation is that if I am writing Pkg A, I want to detect if Pkg B exists - if