[R-pkg-devel] NOTE in r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

[Gábor Csárdi]

If you want to link to a package in the documentation, you'll have to
add it to Suggests.

Gabor

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM Helmut Schütz <helmut.schuetz using bebac.at> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm struggling to understand this NOTE in
> r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang (only)
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_PowerTOST.html
> emmeans is a great package (THX Russell!) but we don't use it anywhere
> in ours.
>
> Only in two man pages we have
> ... obtained via \code{\link[emmeans]{emmeans}} of package \code{emmeans}.
>
> Previously we had plain text and were asked by users for details.
> AFAIK, this is the correct syntax acc. to the REM linking to the man
> page of another package. In the library links work as intended.
>
> Our package is used in a regulated environment where even a NOTE raises
> eyebrows.
> In all other R-versions and operating systems there is no problem. What
> surprises me is that on Fedora the results depends on the C-compiler.
> Strange.
>
> Of course, we could use in NAMESPACE
>    importFrom(emmeans, emmeans)
> but that would force users to install a package they might not need at all.
>
>
> Helmut
>
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