[Rd] as.environment(NULL)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Your code contains

onion.R:"Re.default" <- get("Re",pos=NULL,mode="function")
onion.R:"Im.default" <- get("Im",pos=NULL,mode="function")

and has been giving deprecated warnings for a while (and ?get does not say 
NULL is allowable).  The relevant NEWS item is

    o	Use of NULL as an environment is now an error.


You need pos="package:base" there.


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Robin Hankin wrote:

> Hi
> 
> In NEWS, it says
> 
> 	R CMD check now tests that the package can be loaded, and that
> 	the package and namespace (if there is one) can each be loaded
> 	in startup code (before the standard packages are loaded).
> 
> 
> For package "onion",  I think I have followed all of
> sections 1.6.1 - 1.6.6 of R-exts, and it passes  R CMD check for  
> R-2.3.1.
> 
> 
> However, using  R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable)  
> (2006-08-31 r39045)
> under MacOSX 10.4.7, I get  this:
> 
> 
> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... ERROR
> Error in get("Re", pos = NULL, mode = "function") :
>          using 'as.environment(NULL)' is defunct
> Error: unable to load R code in package 'onion'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'onion'
> Execution halted
> 
> It looks like this package has a loading problem: see the messages for
> details.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> in 00check.log.
> 
> I don't understand what I have to do to fix this.
> In my NAMESPACE file there are lots of lines like this:
> 
> 
> S3method("Re", quaternion)
> S3method("Im", quaternion)
> S3method("i", quaternion)
> S3method("j", quaternion)
> S3method("k", quaternion)
> 
> 
> what do I have to do to make onion work under R-devel?
> 
> 
> 
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> Robin Hankin
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