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

[Helmut Schütz]

Hi Brian,

you take the words out of my mouth. However, we were slapped in the face...

Helmut

Brian G. Peterson wrote on 2020-08-07 17:02:
> On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 15:46 +0100, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>> If you want to link to a package in the documentation, you'll have to
>> add it to Suggests.
> This doesn't make any sense.  If you don't use the code from that
> package anywhere, then a cross-reference to that package should not
> require the extra dependency in Suggests.
>
> Cross references should be able to point to other functionality that
> might be useful to the user, or might add extra depth of understanding
> to a concept.  If the user doesn't have the package installed, no
> worries, it is just a cross reference.
>
> The requirement you are suggesting is also not discussed in Writing R
> Extensions:
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-exts.html#Cross_002dreferences
>
> In fact, it explicitly allows links to potentially uninstalled
> packages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian

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