Awesome - much appreciated. I think I'm missing the forest for the trees at
this point - thanks!

On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 9 March 2025 at 15:03, Stephen Abrams wrote:
> | Hi again - I'm working through the final details of a submission. My
> | current problem is that I make use of a dependency of the caret package
> | (kernlab) in one of my vignettes. If I don't include kernlab in my
> | DESCRIPTION file, I get the following ERROR:
> [...]
> | My NAMESPACE file is auto-generated by roxygen and actually says not to
>
> You need to edit DESCRIPTION (by hand). That is all that there is, and
> _Writing R Extensions_ is fairly clear about this. Here is a quote from
> Section 1.1.3
>
>      The ‘Suggests’ field uses the same syntax as ‘Depends’ and lists
>   packages that are not necessarily needed.  This includes packages used
>   only in examples, tests or vignettes (*note Writing package
>   vignettes::), and packages loaded in the body of functions.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
>


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