[R-pkg-devel] Package Anchored Links with R-Dev

[John Mount]

Firstly: thanks to Ben for the help/fix.

I know nobody asked, but.

Having to guess where the documentation is just to refer to it is just going to be really brittle going forward. Previous: if the function you referred to existed in the package you were fine. Future: if don't correctly specify where the help is you are wrong. Going forward: reorganizing a package's help can break referring packages. This sort of brittleness is going to be a big time-waster going forward. It seems like really the wrong direction in packaging, isolation, and separation of concerns (SOLID style principles).

> On Aug 9, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Ben Bolker <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This might have to be \link[utils:debugger]{dump.frames} now, i.e.
> explicitly linking to the man page on which dump.frames is found
> rather than following aliases?
> 
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:01 PM John Mount <jmount using win-vector.com> wrote:
>> 
>> With "R Under development (unstable) (2020-07-05 r78784)" (Windows) documentation references such as "\link[utils]{dump.frames}" trigger "Non-file package-anchored link(s) in documentation object" warnings even if the package is in your "Imports."
>> 
>> Is that not the right form? Is there any way to fix this other than the workaround of just removing links from the documentation? I kind of don't want to do that as the links were there to help the user.
>> 
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