[R-pkg-devel] Check package without suggests

[John Harrold]

I want to check my package to make sure I'm properly using suggested
packages. I'm trying to catch mistakes where I forgot to do what you're
suggesting.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 7:58 AM Serguei Sokol <serguei.sokol using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it possible that you have complicated the task unnecessarily?
> Normally, you can just do
>
> if (requireNamespace("<suggested_pkg>", quietly=TRUE)) {
>   # do the tests involving <suggested_pkg>
> }
>
> Wasn't that enough?
>
> Best,
> Serguei.
>
>
> Le 18/07/2023 à 16:37, John Harrold a écrit :
> > Howdy Folks,
> >
> > I recent had a package start failing because I wasn't checking properly
> in
> > my tests to make sure my suggested packages were installed before running
> > tests. I think this is something new running on CRAN where packages are
> > tested with only the packages specified as Imports in the DESCRIPTION
> file
> > are installed. It took me a bit of back and forth to get all of these
> > issues worked out.  I was wondering if anyone has a good way to run R CMD
> > check with only the imports installed?  A github action, or a
> > specific platform on rhub?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > John
> > :wq
> >
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