[R-pkg-devel] Dependency needs to be loaded manually even its specified in the package

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:56 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 18 September 2020 at 18:38, Nuria Perez-Zanon wrote:
> | I am maintaining a package call CSTools which is aimed for
> | post-processing climate simulations.
> [...]
> |      library(CSTools)
> |      library(qmap)
>
> You never use library() in a package. Rather, you declare dependency
> relationsships via DESCRIPTION (and likely NAMESPACE). See "Writing R
> Extensions" for all the details.
>

And here's the relevant section:
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Registering-S3-methods

Best,
Josh

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