[R] Issue calling MICE package

[David Winsemius]

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:28 AM, Ole Høst <olehost at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I was not clear enough. The reason I want to use mice::mice() rather
> than library(mice); mice() is that I want to call it from my own package.
> But the reprex works from the command line as well, straight after
> launching R:
> 
>  mice::mice(airquality)
>  #> Error in check.method(setup, data): The following functions were not
> found: mice.impute.pmm, mice.impute.pmm
> 

You were (twice) advised to review what was in your NAMESPACE file. If you want further informed advice you may need to shear that document.

-- 
David.


> The mice.impute functions are exported from the mice package but not
> found.I cannot figure out why but I was hoping someone else had come across
> the issue.
> 
> Interestingly, I can circumvent the problem by doing
>  foreach(i = ...) %dopar% {mice::mice()}
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ole
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> IIUC, this would be an isssue with MICE (or rather "mice"), which isn't
>> Ole's. It could be a namespace issue, but it could also be that some
>> start-up code is not executed if library() is bypasses (see .onAttach et
>> al.).
>> 
>> -pd
>> 
>>> On 4 Oct 2017, at 17:00 , Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Ole
>>> 
>>> One of the experts may be able to diagnose this without extra
>> information but I suspect you have not got the right magic in your
>> NAMESPACE file in your package. You may need to re-read section 1.5.1 of
>> the Writing R extensions manual.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> On 04/10/2017 13:47, Ole Høst wrote:
>>>> I want to call the mice function from the MICE package from my own
>> package.
>>>> However I run into this issue, which can be reproduced on the command
>> line:
>>>> mice::mice(airquality)#> Error in check.method(setup, data): The
>>>> following functions were not found: mice.impute.pmm, mice.impute.pmm
>>>> I have no problems when doing
>>>> library(mice)
>>>> mice(airquality)
>>>> Is this a bug or am I missing something?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ole Høst
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David Winsemius
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