[R] How to link two R packages together

[Bert Gunter]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't this what package dependencies are for?

No. It's what package imports are for (preferably).
As always, the OP should RTFM -- in this case the one to which you
refer on the next line, especially the NAMESPACES section.

-- Bert

>
> See the description of the DESCRIPTION file in Writing R Extensions
>
> Michael
>
> On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:27 PM, xuan zhao <xuan.zhao at sentrana.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have built two R packages. One of them (PKG1) needs to use the functions
>> of the other package (PKG2).
>> So I need to link these two packages together, so that the functions of PKG2
>> can be available to PKG1. And when I load one package using
>> 'library("PKG1")', PKG2 can be loaded at the same.
>> Any ideas welcome.
>>
>>
>>
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