[Rd] R CMD check returns NOTE about package data set as global variable

[Hervé Pagès]

On 04/06/2012 12:33 PM, Brad McNeney wrote:
> OK, thanks for the tip on good coding practice. I'm still getting the NOTE though when I make the suggested change.

Because when you do return(RutgersMapB36[,1]), the code checker has no
way to know that the RutgersMapB36 variable is actually defined.

Try this:

test<-function() {
    RutgersMapB36 <- NULL
    data(RutgersMapB36)
    return(RutgersMapB36[,1])
}

Cheers,
H.

>
> In case it matters, I'm check'ing with
>
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> Brad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Prof Brian Ripley"<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> To: "Brad McNeney"<mcneney at sfu.ca>
>> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>> Sent: Friday, 6 April, 2012 12:18:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD check returns NOTE about package data set as global variable
>>
>> On 06/04/2012 19:46, Brad McNeney wrote:
>>> I'm developing a package that comes with a data set called
>>> RutgersMapB36. One of the package's functions requires this data
>>> frame. A toy example is:
>>>
>>> test<-function() {
>>>     data(RutgersMapB36)
>>>     return(RutgersMapB36[,1])
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> R CMD check returns a NOTE:
>>>
>>> test: no visible binding for global variable 'RutgersMapB36'
>>>
>>> Is there any way to avoid this NOTE?
>>
>> Use data("RutgersMapB36"), which many think is good practice in code.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Brad
>>> ---
>>> Brad McNeney
>>> Statistics and Actuarial Science
>>> Simon Fraser University
>>>
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>>
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