I have a package where I use tidy() to get a clean output of both simple and mixed models. Since some models require broom and mixed models need broom.mixed, I thought I can use the generics package instead.
However, when I add generics to the dependencies and remove broom and broom.mixed, the latter two packages are not installed along with my package. What if users did not have these two packages already installed? What is the best practice to reduce dependencies and use generics, without letting the user run into errors or create confusion?
I have a package where I use
tidy()to get a clean output of both simple and mixed models. Since some models require broom and mixed models need broom.mixed, I thought I can use the generics package instead.However, when I add generics to the dependencies and remove broom and broom.mixed, the latter two packages are not installed along with my package. What if users did not have these two packages already installed? What is the best practice to reduce dependencies and use generics, without letting the user run into errors or create confusion?