[R-pkg-devel] package installation fails due to missing package not listed in NAMESPACE

[Jonathon Love]

yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.

ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

with thanks

jonathon


On 16/5/17 21:21, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> Dear Jonathon,
>
> Is ggplot2 listed in the DESCRIPTION file? It needs to be at least in 
> the Suggests:
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thierry
>
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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> 2017-05-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Love <jon at thon.cc 
> <mailto:jon at thon.cc>>:
>
>     hi,
>
>     i'm receiving failures on the winbuilder, with it complaining that
>     ggplot2 can not be found:
>
>     https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out
>     <https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/170516_125043_jmvcore_055/00install.out>
>
>     now there are some mentions of ggplot2 in our code (but none in
>     our NAMESPACE, we always use the full namespace when calling
>     functions: `ggplot2::ggplot()`), allowing people to pass in
>     ggplot2 themes and for them to be handled correctly, but packages
>     that build on jmvcore don't *need* to use ggplot2. so we've been
>     able to avoid adding it as an import, which is great, because
>     ggplot2 brings quite a few dependencies.
>
>     our code works as intended, passes all tests with `R CMD check
>     --as-cran jmvcore`, etc.
>
>     however the win-builder is pinging us.
>
>     is there a way around this?
>
>     with thanks
>
>     jonathon
>
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