[R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Re: How to (conditionally) use an archived package (without Suggests)?

[Rolf Turner]

Marius:

Can you not, instead of

> if(pkg == "loon" && !requireNamespace("loon", quietly = TRUE))
>         stop("Package 'loon' is not available.")

do something like:

if(pkg == "loon" && !requireNamespace("loon", quietly = TRUE)) {
         cat("Package 'loon' is not available.\n")
         cat("Sorry 'bout that, chief!\n")
         return(invisible())
}

Thereby no error is thrown.  The user may be unhappy with the result,
but he or she would have been similarly unhappy with the error, and
there is no way of constructing your function so that such a user *will* 
be happy.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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