> As a user of your package, I would find it irritating if example(foo) didn't > run anything. It would be more irritating (and would indicate sloppiness > on your part) if the examples failed when I cut and pasted them. These both > suggest leaving the examples running. > > As the author of your package, it sounds as though you find it quite > irritating when other authors break your code. > > Isn't the right solution to this to work with the other package authors to > come up with code that is unlikely to break? If that's not possible, then > maybe don't use those packages that cause you trouble.
It was my understanding that package authors are responsible for not breaking other CRAN packages without warning. For example, before I release a new version of plyr or ggplot2, I run R CMD check on every package that depends on my package. I then let the maintainers know if something is broken - sometimes it's because I introduced a bug, and other times it's because I'm enforcing a stricter check than I did previously Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
