>>>>> Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fhcrc.org>
>>>>> on Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:59:52 -0700 writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan Rosenblatt" <john.ros.w...@gmail.com> To:
>> bioc-devel@r-project.org Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2014
>> 10:39:57 PM Subject: [Bioc-devel] Contradicting
>> descriptions of "Enhances"
>>
>> At the time of writing:
>>
>> *Writing R Extensions:* "...the ‘Enhances’ field lists
>> packages “enhanced” by the package at hand..."
> This is backwards, maybe just a grammar fail? IMO it
> should say "the 'Enhances' field lists packages which
> 'enhance' the package at hand, if they are present."
I don't think so!
Dan, what you describe is basically 'Suggests'. 'Enhances' is
used more rarely, and indeed meant for what it says in WRE.
Otherwise, please bring this to the R-devel m.list.
>> *Bioconductor:* "Enhances: is for packages such as Rmpi
>> or parallel that enhance the performance of the current
>> package, but are not strictly needed for its
>> functionality."
and the above is not correct, IMO.
Martin
>> Have these definitions been resolved?
>>
> IMO R-exts should be corrected along the lines I suggest
> above (and R-devel is the appropriate place for such a
> suggestion); however, the text on the bioc site is also
> probably less than ideal (will confer with bioc core as to
> how to rewrite it). Rmpi and parallel are not _always_
> "take it or leave it" packages. Other than the grammar
> blooper, R-exts goes on to give more detailed and correct
> information, the most important bit of which is that all
> invocations of packages in enhances should be wrapped in
> if (require(somePkg)).
> Dan
>>
>>
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>> Mathematics and CS Weizmann Institute of Science
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