[R] R CMD CHECK and require() / library() methods

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Crispin Miller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a piece of code that decides at runtime whether to load a data
> package (and which package to load).
> This is then done with a call to:
>
> library(x)
>
> (where x is a character variable containing the package name).
>
> This causes R CMD check to throw out a warning:
> 'library' or 'required' calls not declared from:
> x

Which version of R is this?  All I can find say 'require'.

>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to a fix or workaround for this?

That call should be

library(x, character.only=TRUE)

and that will in R 2.5.0 stop the warning AFAIK.

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