[R] How to build a package which loads Rgraphviz (if installed)...

[Søren Højsgaard]

Bill,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not solve the problem; I get the same warning from rcmd check. I suspect that rcmd check actually checks that any package referred to in require() is declared in the DESCRIPTION file. From the version numbers from your 'psych' package I guess you are stuck with the same problem???
 
Cheers
Søren

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Fra: William Revelle [mailto:lists at revelle.net]
Sendt: lø 12-07-2008 23:47
Til: Søren Højsgaard; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Emne: Re: [R] How to build a package which loads Rgraphviz (if installed)...



Soren,
When  I had an almost identical  problem last
year.  I also wanted to use Rraphviz but only if
people had it.

Kurt Hornik suggested that I replace a direct
call to the function, foo, that uses Rgraphviz
with

if(require("Rgraphviz"))  foo()

Bill

At 10:23 PM +0200 7/12/08, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
>Dear List,
>I use Rgraphviz for display of graphs in some
>packages. Since Rgraphviz is no longer on CRAN
>it needs to be installed from Bioconductor and
>that is fine, but I have trouble figureing out
>the following: I create a plot method which - if
>Rgraphviz is installed - uses Rgraphviz for
>displaying and otherwise does nothing. This is
>implemented as:
>
>
>   if (!("package:Rgraphviz" %in% search())){
>     if("Rgraphviz" %in% installed.packages()){
>       require(Rgraphviz)
>     } else {
>       cat("The Rgraphviz package (from
>Bioconductor) must be installed to display the
>models\n")
>       return()
>     }
>   }
>  ... else go on and do the plotting...
>
>When I run rcmd check packagename (on Windows XP, using R.2.7.1) I get
>
>* checking for unstated dependencies in R code ... WARNING
>'library' or 'require' calls not declared from:
>   Rgraphviz
>See the information on DESCRIPTION files in the chapter 'Creating R
>packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
>
>I can not state Rgraphviz in the Depends-field
>of the DESCRIPTION file because then the package
>does not pass the windows checks for going on
>CRAN. I can not see any solution from "writing R
>extensions", but I apologize if I have
>overlooked it. Does anyone have a suggestion on
>what to do?
>
>Cheers
>Søren
>
>
>
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