[R] Issue with Imports in NAMESPACE

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-06-25 6:50 AM, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
> Dear all,
> In my gRbase package I have up until now "Depend"-ed on RBGL (from Bioconductor), but good people have convinced me that I should use "Import"-it instead because I only use few functions from RBGL.
>
> In DESCRIPTION I therefore now have
> Imports: Matrix,RBGL
>
> In NAMESPACE I now have
> importFrom(RBGL, maxClique, is.triangulated, separates)
>
> The package compiles without complaints, but I have noticed that if I start a fresh R-session, then maxClique etc. from RBGL is NOT available for "interactive use" in my session:
>> library(gRbase)
>> maxClique
> Error: object 'maxClique' not found
>
> 1) Is this as it should be?
>
> 2) If yes, is there any other way in which maxClique can be imported for interactive use without Depend-ing the whole RBGL package?

The importFrom directive effectively makes local copies of those 
functions in your package (with the usual caveats that copies aren't as 
inefficient as you might think).  If you want to export them, you need 
to add them to the exports list.

Duncan Murdoch