I am writing an R package and here:
R package does not load dependencies
An user indicates that (s)he changed
Imports: dplyr (>= 0.4.3), ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), lazyeval (>= 0.1.10)
to
Depends: dplyr (>= 0.4.3), ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), lazyeval (>= 0.1.10)
And the problem with required packages for a new R package was solved. However, that person did not indicate if the change was done manually or by coding. I am doing the change manually and my problem persists (and I really believe the problem is about importing packages or dependencies).
My questions are:
1- Is it just fine to edit the DESCRIPTION manually? If not, 2- Which is the proper way to do the change?
Very much thank you in advance
To answer your questions:
(1) It is fine to update the DESCRIPTION
file manually.
(2) There is no "proper way" to do this, but I find that the best way to add an R-package as an import is to use usethis::use_package("package")
. This will add it to the correct place in the DESCRIPTION
file, and will remind you to reference the packages you use as package::function()
(which is needed, as the Imports
field only load, and don't attach, the packages).
Regarding putting a package in Depends
vs. Imports
: you should almost always put packages your code relies on as Imports
. You can read more about it here .
I hope this was useful.
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