On 24 February 2018 at 19:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | Don't throw an error, work around it. If you have no alternative code, | then don't test the "bar" code unless "bar" is installed. | | The basic idea is that your package should pass tests without errors | even if "bar" is not available.
100% agreed. | I think Dirk is wrong saying that "bar" has to be available; CRAN isn't | going to go looking for it. But they do want your package to pass all | tests even if none of the Suggests packages is available. I might be wrong but I thought all package in Imports, LinkingTo, Depends and Suggests are actually checked for availability. CRAN and BioC work by default, others can be added via Additional_repository in DESCRIPTION. And as I recall, not mentioning one leads to some complaint from R CMD check. But I may well misremember. Best, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
