[Bioc-devel] Package warning due to function replacement

Michael Lawrence lawrence.michael at gene.com
Fri Sep 23 15:45:06 CEST 2016


You'll need to either `importFrom(Biobase, only, the, symbols,
needed)` or use the `except="combine"` argument to `import()`.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:59 AM, THEVENOT Etienne 207099
<Etienne.THEVENOT at cea.fr> wrote:
> Dear Bioc Team,
>
> First of all thanks a lot again for all the time you spend developing and maintaining the Bioc repository.
>
> I recently added 'Biobase' as "suggests" in the 'biosigner' package in order to have the biosign method work on 'ExpressionSet' objects (devel version of 'biosigner').
>
> Since it appears that the 'combine' method from 'Biobase' is common to a combine method from 'randomForest' (imported in 'biosigner'), the following warning is generated:
>
> Warning: replacing previous import 'Biobase::combine' by 'randomForest::combine' when loading 'biosigner'
>
> This message is fine for me (the 'combine' method from Biobase is not used in 'biosigner'), but I wanted to check that getting such a warning will not prevent the devel version to move into the next bioc release.
>
> I thank you in advance for your answer.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Etienne.
>
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