[R] NAMESPACE and imports

Frank Harrell f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Fri Apr 19 20:16:54 CEST 2013


Now I see it.  S3method() wants two arguments so I need to create multiple
S3method() statements for each generic.
Frank

Frank Harrell wrote
> Right, I should have said import(Hmisc) instead of importFrom(Hmisc), but
> that does not explain the error message.
> Blaser Nello wrote
>> Not sure this fixes your problem, but as far as I can know (and can tell
>> from the manual:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.pdf), importFrom
>> needs to know what functions you are importing [e.g. importFrom(Hmisc,
>> "latex") importFrom(stats, "anova")]. 
>> 
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>> I am cleaning up the rms package to not export functions not to be called
>> directly by users.  rms uses generic functions defined in other packages. 
>> For example there is a latex method in the Hmisc package, and rms has a
>> latex method for objects of class "anova.rms" so there are anova.rms and
>> latex.anova.rms functions in rms.  I use:
>> 
>> export(asis,bj,bjplot,bootBCa,bootcov,bootplot,bplot,calibrate,cph,catg,combineRelatedPredictors,confplot,contrast,coxphFit,cph,cr.setup,datadist,effective.df,fastbw,formatNP,gendata,gIndex,GiniMd,Glm,Gls,groupkm,Hazard,hazard.ratio.plot,histdensity,"%ia%",ie.setup,interactions.containing,legend.nomabbrev,lm.pfit,lrm,lrtest,lsp,matinv,matrx,Newlabels,Newlevels,nomogram,num.intercepts,ols,ols.influence,oos.loglik,pantext,Penalty.matrix,Penalty.setup,pentrace,perimeter,perlcode,plot.xmean.ordinaly,pol,pphsm,predab.resample,Predict,psm,rcs,related.predictors,reVector,robcov,Rq,sascode,scored,sensuc,setPb,show.influence,specs,strat,Surv,"[.Surv",survdiffplot,survest,Survival,survplot,univarLR,validate,val.prob,val.probg,val.surv,vif,which.influence)
>> 
>> importFrom(Hmisc)
>> S3method(anova, rms)
>> S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ols,
>> pphsm, psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)
>> 
>> When doing R CMD INSTALL I get: [using R 2.15.3]
>> 
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> Error : c("bad 'S3method' directive: S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph,
>> Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ", "bad 'S3method' directive:     ols,
>> pphsm,
>> psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)")
>> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘rms’
>> 
>> Any advice appreciated.
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> 
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