[Bioc-devel] Imports, depends and warnings

[Federico Marini]

Hi Bioconductors,

I'm on a good way to finalize the pcaExplorer package I presented at the 
recent Bioc Developers Meeting.

Trying to keep check and BiocCheck always in the background of my head, 
as well as trying to be a good 'package neighbour', I am dealing with 
the issue of some "Warning: replacing previous import by..." messages, 
when building/loading/checking.

 From my understanding, there might be some cases where this can not be 
fixed, probably because an imported package in turn imports itself 
another one entirely, making my own import redundant (e.g., ggplot2 for 
plotting and NMF for aheatmap give this part:

Warnung: replacing previous import by ‘ggplot2::unit’ when loading ‘NMF’
Warnung: replacing previous import by ‘ggplot2::arrow’ when loading ‘NMF’

This happens even if I specifically just use importFrom in the NAMESPACE.

I'm kind of puzzled on this, so I thought I'd better ask out for some 
expert advice on the ML. If required, I could put the package in a 
GitHub repository.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

Federico

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Federico Marini, M.Sc.
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