[R-pkg-devel] Having shiny as an optional dependency

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.11.2020 19:53, Kamil Stachowski wrote:
> This is actually what I do. Before you replied, I was told to write to CRAN
> and explain, and they will decide whether the packages will be installed on
> CRAN machines. Thank you for your help nonetheless.

No, I told you about a "third party C++ API" you asked for, not about an 
R package. R packages  from BioC + CRAN should be availabe on CRAN, in 
that case it is a problem in your package.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


> 
> Best,
> Kamil
> 
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 19:39, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You probably import functions from shiny. Don't do that, refer to them
>> with the `::` operator instead.
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 6:12 PM Kamil Stachowski
>> <kamil.stachowski using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I wrote a package that contains a graphical interface written with
>> packages
>>> "shiny" and "shinyjqui". My package can also be used from the CLI, so I
>>> listed both "shiny" and "shinyjqui" as optional dependencies. I ran R CMD
>>> check --as-cran on my computer in R 3.6.3 and devel, and both passed
>>> without any errors or warnings. However, when I tried uploading the
>> package
>>> to CRAN, I got this error:
>>>
>>> Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called ‘shiny’
>>> Error: unable to load R code in package ‘soundcorrs’
>>> Execution halted
>>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘soundcorrs’
>>>
>>> How can I fix this?
>>>
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