[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 August 2016 at 19:45, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| Why not put together code to implement your idea, and see how big the
| problem would be to phase it in, by seeing how many packages fail under it?

Ahh, the old 'put-up-or-shut-up' gambit, very nice. Big fan of that myself.

I have been sitting on the need to build better infrastructure for my reverse
depends checks anyway, and may get there over the fall.  Or not as I have
been saying that for a long time...  It will likely be Docker-based which may
or may not be suitable for CRAN, but should be for r-hub which may get this
all by itself too.  Not sure of this can be done in R alone.

Then again, users of TravisCI know that just toggling

_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE

does it too so in that sense it is already there, but not used?

Dirk

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