[R-pkg-devel] [External] circular suggested packages

[Richard M. Heiberger]

Why are these functins in two different packages?
On the surface it looks like qrcode is a transformation function and opencv is its inverse.

> On Nov 7, 2023, at 14:55, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkelinx using inbo.be> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The qrcode package converts text into a qrcode image. The opencv package is
> able to convert images with a qrcode into the text. opencv has a unit test
> that uses qrcode to generate a test image. Hence it lists qrcode as a
> suggested package.
>
> Would it be OK to implement the same unit test in qrcode? And thus
> requiring qrcode to list opencv as a suggested package. I know this is not
> allowed when depending or importing packages.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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