[Roxygen-devel] DESCRIPTION file generation + roxygen() error + multiple keywords

[Hadley Wickham]

>>> 2.  I get an error saying roxygen() is not found when running R CMD
>>> check after roxygenize().  Should we always specify that our package
>>> depends on roxygen in order for it to pass this?  roxygen() is in the
>>> .R file after running package.skeleton() and roxygenize().
>>
>> You could also change roxygen() by NULL at the end of the file. This
>> should fix your issue, but I don't know what the error you describe
>> means and why it is returned. Anyway, there shouldn't be any
>> requirement to specify roxygen as a dependency.
>
> In the example above, roxgen() is called after the packagename-package
> chunk (that updates packagename-package.Rd) after running
> roxygenize().  When we run R CMD check on the package directory, I get
> an error that roxygen() is not found -- because the roxygen library is
> not loaded.
>
> Are you suggesting I use NULL instead of roxygen() after the
> packagename-package chunk?  Or should I set the DESCRIPTION file to
> depend or require the roxygen package.

Use NULL instead of roxygen().  You don't need to add a run-time
dependency to the roxygen package.

Hadley

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