[Rd] Submitting packages with weak circular dependencies to CRAN.

oliver oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Sat Mar 9 01:49:20 CET 2013


Hello,

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:42:04PM -0500, Pavel N. Krivitsky wrote:
> Hello, R-devel,
> 
> I am planning to submit two packages, A and B, to CRAN. Package B uses
> an API exported by package A, while package A uses package B to test the
> API in question. Thus, package B Depends on, and Enhances, A, and A
> Suggests B.
[...]

Why not putting common stuff of A and B into C and then let A and B depend on C?

Ciao,
   Oliver



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