[Rd] S4 class name conflicts

[Michael Lawrence]

Great, thanks. I have fixed both issues and will commit after more testing.

Michael

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:07 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> you only need the CRAN versions. You probably need a recent version of
> pillar, to
> create the name conflict with its dependency:
>
> install.packages("pillar")
> install.packages("cli")
> install.packages("RNeXML", type = "source")
>
> This will already give you:
> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
> Found more than one class "tree" in cache; using the first, from namespace 'cli'
> Also defined by ‘RNeXML’
>
> and then:
>
> library(RNeXML)
> unloadNamespace("RNeXML")
>
> Error in .mergeMethodsTable(generic, mtable, tt, attach) :
>   trying to get slot "defined" from an object of a basic class
> ("environment") with no slots
>
> This is macOS arm64, but looking at the CRAN check page, that should not matter.
>
> Let me know if this does not work, and the I'll create a Docker
> container or something more reproducible.
>
> Thanks,
> Gabor
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:53 PM Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael using gene.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Gabor,
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this issue. Would you be able to help me
> > reproduce it? I'm guessing this depends on some combination of git
> > checkouts, so it would be helpful to know which.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:32 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The RNeXML CRAN package currently has some check warnings, originating
> > > from an S4 class name conflict.
> > >
> > > RNeXML sets the S4 class "tree". A dependency of the package now
> > > depends on the cli package, which calls setOldClass() on an S3 "tree"
> > > class.
> > >
> > > This causes two potential issues. One is that RNeXML maybe ends up
> > > using cli's class internally, because this is what we see at install
> > > time:
> > >
> > > ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
> > > Found more than one class "tree" in cache; using the first, from namespace 'cli'
> > > Also defined by ‘RNeXML’
> > >
> > > The second issue is an error when RNeXML is unloaded:
> > >
> > > ❯ unloadNamespace("RNeXML")
> > > Error in .mergeMethodsTable(generic, mtable, tt, attach) :
> > >   trying to get slot "defined" from an object of a basic class
> > > ("environment") with no slots
> > >
> > > This makes R CMD check fail as well.
> > >
> > > Is cli doing something wrong here? Or is this a bug in base R? Or is
> > > it a known limitation? If the latter, would it make sense for the
> > > RNeXML installation to fail instead of creating a broken package. (If
> > > it is a broken package at all.)
> > >
> > > Gabor
> > >
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