[R-pkg-devel] Documenting dependencies on Bioconductor packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 July 2016 at 06:51, Kristian Hovde Liland wrote:
| I haven't found any good examples on how to include such information in the
| descriptions. Is it sufficient to write at the end: "This package depends on
| the Biostrings package hosted by Bioconductor.", or is there a formal or more
| elegant way of including this information?

Why don't you just add a Depends: as this package does:

   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SimRAD/index.html

or a Suggests: (plus proper run-time tests) as done here:

   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/phangorn/index.html

Dirk

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