If you use import
or importFrom
in your NAMESPACE file, you should have an entry for that package in the Imports section of your DESCRIPTION file (unless there is a reason that you need to use Depends in which case the package should have an entry in Depends, and not Imports)
Here is a relevant section of Writing R Extensions
The ‘Imports’ field lists packages whose namespaces are imported from (as specified in the NAMESPACE file) but which do not need to be attached. Namespaces accessed by the ‘::’ and ‘:::’ operators must be listed here, or in ‘Suggests’ or ‘Enhances’ (see below). Ideally this field will include all the standard packages that are used, and it is important to include S4-using packages (as their class definitions can change and the DESCRIPTION file is used to decide which packages to re-install when this happens). Packages declared in the ‘Depends’ field should not also be in the ‘Imports’ field.
I made a package with a single function f
. I made a NAMESPACE file with the same importFrom
line that you say you have in yours.
NAMESPACE file
export("f")
importFrom("ggplot2","ggplot","geom_histogram")
At this point, if I run R CMD check
, as expected, I get an error:
Namespace dependency not required: ‘ggplot2’
But, if I add Imports: ggplot2
to the DESCRIPTION such that my DESCRIPTION file is as follows, it passes R CMD check
with no problems.
DESCRIPTION file
Package: anRpackage
Type: Package
Title: What the package does (short line)
Version: 1.0
Date: 2012-11-07
Author: Me
Maintainer: Who to complain to <yourfault@somewhere.net>
Description: More about what it does (maybe more than one line)
License: GPL
Imports: ggplot2
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