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r-help at r-project.org Dear friends, I want to make the following change of R setting on a windows 7 desktop. $R_check_force_suggests = "FALSE" Since I have no experience using Unix, I don't how to make the suggestions in "writing R extension" works for windows. I will appreciate if you would help me to figure out what is the equivalent of the following settings in Windows system. **********************...

Hi, is there a way to have R CMD check test the example():s twice, once with all Suggest package hidden or once, if $R_check_force_suggests=1, with all Suggest available? BACKGROUND: I just had a case where my R.matlab package passed all R CMD checks on my local machine, but when I uploaded it to CRAN it gave an error there. R.matlab has Omegahat's 'Rcompression' package listed under Suggest: in DESCRIPTION. I've pu...

...ovided by such a package is not necessary by most people, but may be used by a few who then take the effort to get hold of and install that package. [I don't want to discuss why such package are not on public repositories; there are heaps of reasons which are out of my control]. 2. If option $R_check_force_suggests=false, then R CMD check will silently accept that packages under Suggests: are not available/installed. This is the policy of CRAN. 3. However, R CMD check will give a WARNING for Rd cross reference to such packages, e.g. * checking Rd cross-references ... WARNING Unknown package(s) ?John...

Hi there, I was wondering why I get the following error message: * checking package dependencies ... ERROR Packages required but not available: Rmpi when I run 'R CMD check' on a package that _suggests_ Rmpi? Why isn't it OK to not have all the suggested packages installed? Maybe one of the 3 following behaviours would be more appropriate: a) Having the error saying