From hadley at rice.edu  Fri Apr 29 18:33:59 2011
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:33:59 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R CMD check and Suggests Packages
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> Maybe also useful to distinguish between package check and INSTALL, where
> during the former the Suggests: package must be present (modulo setting
> additional flags) but in the latter may not be. The Bioconductor build
> system, for instance, would install RepitoolsExamples ?before running R CMD
> check Repitools. A user might successfully install Repitools without
> installing RepitoolsExamples.

There's also the case a suggested package isn't available for a
specific platform, the CRAN builders will still build it.

Hadley

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[Rd] R CMD check and Suggests Packages
Hadley Wickham