[Rd] Package Building and Name Space

[Johannes Graumann]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 18:24:15 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 1/23/2008 11:31 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 17:25:38 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> On 1/23/2008 11:11 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> >> > ... sorry for reposting this in a more appropriate forum than
> >> > r.general ...
> >> >
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I just don't get this and would appreciate if someone could write a
> >> > line or two: I'm trying to build this package and it stops installing
> >> > after I add
> >> >
> >> > the following to the NAMESPACES file:
> >> >>importFrom(gsubfn,strapply)
> >> >
> >> > The error during the package test is:
> >> >
> >> > Error in MyPackage::MyFunction :
> >> >   package 'MyPackage' has no name space and is not on the search path
> >> > Calls: <Anonymous> ... <Anonymous> -> switch -> sys.source -> eval ->
> >> > eval -> ::
> >> > Execution halted
> >> >
> >> > 'MyFunction' contains 'strapply' from gsubfn.
> >> >
> >> > Please tell me where I err.
> >>
> >> The file is called NAMESPACE, not NAMESPACES.
> >
> > And that's what it's called here ... sorry for the typo above. The error
> > remains the same.
>
> With the obscuring you've done it's pretty hard to be sure, but I'd
> assume you have the expression MyPackage::MyFunction somewhere in your
> package, but MyPackage doesn't have a namespace.  In that case, you have
> to make sure it is attached via
>
> library(MyPackage)
>
> or
>
> require(MyPackage)
>
> before you can use the "::" operator.

But it's "mypackage" I'm trying to check ... can't attach that yet since I 
need to package and install it first ...

Joh
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