my R package has a function (my_func) that uses function(bar) from another package (foo) which only available on Unix. So I write my code this way, following the suggested packages in Writing R extension:
my_func = function(){
....
if (requireNamespace("foo", quietly = TRUE)) {
foo::bar(..) # also tried bar(...)
} else {
# do something else without `bar`
}
...
}
However, I keep getting such warning message when I run R CMD check:
'loadNamespace' or 'requireNamespace' call not declared from: foo
Is there any way to use platform specific packages without gives such warnings? I tried to include foo in the Description file and the warning disappeared, but then the package cannot be installed on windows because foo is not available for the win.