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

[Hervé Pagès]

On 04/06/2012 01:33 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2012, at 22:23 , Hervé Pagès wrote:
>
>> 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])
>> }
>>
>
> That might remove the NOTE, but as far as I can see, it also breaks the code...
>

oops, right...

This should remove the NOTE and work (hopefully):

test<-function() {
    data("RutgersMapB36")  # loads RutgersMapB36 in .GlobalEnv
    RutgersMapB36 <- get("RutgersMapB36", envir=.GlobalEnv)
    return(RutgersMapB36[,1])
}

Cheers,
H.


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