CreatePackageReport() fails with error "there is no package"

[jameslamb]

I'm unsure of the exact issue, but the Function Network (produced FunctionReporter) is broken for some packages.

To reproduce:

pkg_name <- YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME
CreatePackageReport(
    pkg_name
    , report_path = file.path(getwd(), "report.html")
)

This produces an error like the following:

## Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]): there is no package called 'spatstat.data'

For the following combinations of (YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME, package in error message):

• alphahull, spatstat.data
• BradleyTerry2, profileModel
• brms, StanHeaders
• brglm, profileModel
• btergm, ergm.count
• cartogram, spData
• classInt, spData
• csampling, marg
• doRedis, rredis
• doRNG, rngtools
• Ecdat, Ecfun
• ei, gmm
• geojsonio, spData
• kangar00, biomaRt
• mapview, spData
• OceanView, plot3D
• pgirmess, spData
• prefmod, gnm
• prim, rgl
• RH2, RJDBC
• randtoolbox, rngWELL
• rnaturalearth, spData
• rstan, StanHeaders
• spam, dotCall64
• spatstat, spatstat.data
• splm, spData
• statnet, ergm.count
• tm, NLP
• tmap, spData
• tmapdata, spData
• tmvtnorm, gmm
• ZeligEI, gmm

Fixing this error probably means finding the common thread between how each of those packages uses the package being complained about.

I can confirm that each of the "could not find packages" is something that I don't have installed locally. So maybe the issue is that all of those are in Suggests or LinkingTo or Enhances (meaning I didn't need to install them) but something in our code is finding a hard dependency on them.

discovered via the code in #252