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

[Jeff Newmiller]

Richard ... they are by different maintainers. They also are built with completely different underlying technologies... creating a bitmap is easy, deciphering one is difficult and may not be necessary in the same workflow and there may be different compiled code available optimized for different use cases (clean vs with optical interference) so it makes perfect sense to me.

On November 7, 2023 12:01:01 PM PST, "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
>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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