How to nicely use box::use in a formal R package

[dereckmezquita]

I’m currently developing an R package and I’m keen on utilising the box package for modular imports. However, I’m encountering some issues and would very much appreciate guidance.

I am writing a formal R package that I want to be able to build and install. However during the developement process I find building it to be extremely annoying - I would very much rather like to use box::use imports from my test scripts and test my code that way.

I find myself putting box::use import statements at the top of my modules in the ./R folder and then during a build having to comment them out.

Is there anything you can recommend and I could do to avoid having to comment in and out everytime?

I am imagining something like:

./R/some_code.R

if (box::is_box_module()) {
    box::use(
        # whatever imports I want
    )
}

some_fun <- function() {}

Thus, being able to build my package and use box as well.