R package dependencies not installed from Additional_repositories

Question

I am developing a package that requires the namespace of another package, OpenMx. This package is only available from it\'s own repository, but specifying this repository in

Answer 1

So it appears that the Additional_repositories field is only used to check the existence of any suggested packages, but they are not actually loaded, and hence if any examples or vignettes use these packages, the build process will break. I have worked around the problem for now by setting examples to not run and including a pre-built vignette instead.