[R-pkg-devel] Conditionally use packages from Bioconductor

[Uwe Ligges]

On 05.02.2020 16:05, Daniel Lüdecke wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> for a package that is already published on CRAN, we plan to include a
> function that relies on the M3C-package, which is on Bioconductor only.
> Since this function in M3C is not essential for most other functions of our
> package, we thought about adding M3C to the "Suggests" field in the
> DESCRIPTION file, and from the "Writing R Extensions" page we found that we
> could also add the URL to the "Additional_repositories" field of the
> DESCRIPTION file (Additional_repositories:
> https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/M3C.html).

BioC is a standard repository that you do not need to delcare.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> Would this be the correct way to conditionally use a package from
> Bioconductor in own packages?
> 
> Best
> Daniel
> 
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