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

Tue May 16 13:52:22 CEST 2017

On 16 May 2017 at 21:22, Jonathon Love wrote:
| yes, sorry, crucial piece of information i forgot to mention.
| 
| ggplot2 *is* in suggests.

Suggests != Depends

The semantics are messed up around R.  If you use Suggests, you really should [1]
test for presence.

Dirk

[1] My preference is for "must" instead but I said my piece many times now.

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