[Rd] R CMD check fails to warn about undocumented classes and methods

[Martin Morgan]

On 12/15/2011 03:40 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
> In
>
>  > R.version.string
> [1] "R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-15 r57901)"
>
> PkgA promotes 'unique' to a generic and exports that
>
> DESCRIPTION:
> Imports: methods
>
> R/f.R:
> setGeneric("unique")
>
> NAMESPACE:
> export(unique)
>
> and PkgB creates and exports a method on unique
>
> DESCRIPTION
> Imports: methods, PkgA
>
> R/f.R:
> setClass("B", representation(b="numeric"))
> setMethod(unique, "B",
> function(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...) unique(x at b))

this also has

   bunique <- function(b) unique(b)

> NAMESPACE:
> importFrom(PkgA, unique)
> exportClasses(B)
> exportMethods(unique)

and

   export(bunique)

>
> There is a man/ page for each package, but no other documentation. Yet
>
> R CMD check PkgA_1.0.tar.gz
>
> says
>
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
>
> and for Pkg B we only get
>
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING
> Undocumented code objects:
> ‘bunique’
> All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
> See the chapter 'Writing R documentation files' in the 'Writing R
> Extensions' manual.
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
>
> Martin


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