[R-pkg-devel] CRAN packages dependency on bioconductor packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 16 May 2024 at 05:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| I forget now, but presumably the thinking at the time was that Suggested 
| packages would always be available for building and checking vignettes.

Yes. I argued for years (cf https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/22/
from seven (!!) years ago) and CRAN is slowly moving away from that implicit
'always there' guarantee to prefering explicit enumerations -- and now even
tests via the NoSuggests flavour.

As Uwe stated in this thread, having the vignette dependencies both in
Suggests as well as in the VignetteHeader should do. And it is the Right
Thing (TM) to do.

Dirk

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