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

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Sep 18 19:14:23 CEST 2020


On 18/09/2020 12:52 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel 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.

I think you misread the post:  this was an example of code a user would 
run, not code from the package.

Duncan Murdoch



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