[R-pkg-devel] nit-picking about CRAN repository policy

[Ben Bolker]

On 2022-05-07 6:54 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> While I of course do not speak for CRAN, allow me (given I've harped on this
> beat before [1]) to record a strong disagreement here: "unconditionally used"
> is simply not reflecting the conditional nature of a Suggests, nomatter where
> it happens in the package.  Vignettes are no different from examples.
> 
> So I say thanks to CRAN for having gradually sharpened the language in the
> CRAN Repo Policu over the years and for now adding even more explicit tests.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> [1] One such post is "Suggests != Depends which is at
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/22/#suggests_is_not_depends
> 

   Dirk and Simon: to be clear, I'm not objecting to the new tests, just 
to the fact that they don't match the published repository policy.

(and conditioned on a mildly annoying CRAN interaction as described 
elsewhere in the thread 
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2022q2/008040.html>).

   cheers
    Ben