Hi, [hpages at localhost pkgreviews]$ R-2.13 CMD check qrqc_0.99.2.tar.gz * using log directory ?/home/hpages/pkgreviews/qrqc.Rcheck? * using R version 2.13.0 alpha (2011-03-24 r55004) * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) * using session charset: UTF-8 * checking for file ?qrqc/DESCRIPTION? ... OK * this is package ?qrqc? version ?0.99.2? * checking package name space information ... OK * checking package dependencies ... ERROR Namespace dependency not required: RColorBrewer How I (somewhat naively) interpret this is: it is not required that I have this namespace dependency. In other words, R CMD check was able to figure out that my package doesn't use anything from RColorBrewer internally so I don't need to have this import(RColorBrewer) directive in my NAMESPACE file. Which is of course not what 'R CMD check' is trying to tell me. Couldn't the message say something a little bit less misleading i.e. something like: Namespace dependency not in Imports field: RColorBrewer Thanks! H.