Hi Henrik, I know it's not necessary and I know that the WRE manual and 'R CMD check' don't like this but I like to list in Imports what I import and to list in Depends what I want to see attached to the search() path. For the same reason that I like to explicitly export the generic functions that I define in my packages even if exporting the methods defined on these generics is enough (because it has the side effect to automatically export the generic).
More generally it's about expressing intentions directly versus expressing them in an indirect manner (e.g. by relying on side effects). I think the latter is wrong. Hope that makes sense. Cheers, H. On 04/25/2015 01:12 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
It seems unnecessary that BiocGenerics have the same package under Imports as under Depends. The former can be dropped.packageDescription("BiocGenerics")Package: BiocGenerics Title: S4 generic functions for Bioconductor Description: S4 generic functions needed by many Bioconductor packages. Version: 0.14.0 Author: The Bioconductor Dev Team Maintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintai...@bioconductor.org> biocViews: Infrastructure Depends: methods, utils, graphics, stats, parallel Imports: methods, utils, graphics, stats, parallel Suggests: Biobase, S4Vectors, IRanges, GenomicRanges, AnnotationDbi, oligoClasses, oligo, affyPLM, flowClust, affy, DESeq2, MSnbase, annotate, RUnit License: Artistic-2.0 Collate: S3-classes-as-S4-classes.R normarg-utils.R update-utils.R ..... NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2015-04-17 03:42:27 UTC; biocbuild Built: R 3.3.0; ; 2015-04-25 20:08:25 UTC; windows /Henrik _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
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