[R-pkg-devel] no visible global function definition

[Neal Fultz]

There's https://twitter.com/cranpolicywatch

I wouldn't mind if that got forwarded to r-package-devel, as I'm not on
twitter myself.



On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Uwe,
>
> It seems like this is quite a major change; I imagine it will affect many
> packages (since lots of packages implicitly assume other 'base' packages,
> like 'utils', will always be available in an R session). IIUC, in the
> latest versions of R-devel, only the 'base' package can be assumed
> available; everything else must be explicitly imported.
>
>
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/dba5a49dcae7e9bcb8528cf78fd9d51f092652b2
>
> Is there any chance that such changes could be made in announcements on
> R-pkg-devel? Or, as an aside, would it be permissible for non-R-core
> members to make such announcements on this list?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Uwe Ligges <
> ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 29.06.2015 11:10, Daniel Lüdecke wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm doing my package check for CRAN, in order to see whether submitting
> >> the
> >> package-update passes all checks.
> >> I'm doing the tests under Windows 7, using R-Version "R Under
> development
> >> (unstable) (2015-06-28 r68602)".
> >>
> >> Now I got a quite long list of NOTEs, which are probably no problem,
> >> however, I would like to fix these issues, if possible.
> >>
> >> It seems that all base and/or stats function now produce a note
> concering
> >> the visible global function definition. Here's a short example of my
> >> output
> >> from my package check:
> >>
> >> sjp.grpfrq: no visible global function definition for 'sd'
> >> sjp.grpfrq: no visible global function definition for 'plot'
> >> sjp.int: no visible global function definition for 'sd'
> >> sjp.int: no visible global function definition for 'quantile'
> >> sjp.int: no visible global function definition for 'plogis'
> >> sjp.likert: no visible global function definition for 'xtabs'
> >> sjp.likert: no visible binding for global variable 'offset'
> >> sjp.likert: no visible global function definition for 'plot'
> >> sjp.lm: no visible global function definition for 'coef'
> >> sjp.lm: no visible global function definition for 'coefficients'
> >> sjp.lm: no visible global function definition for 'confint'
> >> sjp.lm.eff: no visible global function definition for 'model.matrix'
> >>
> >> Do I have to import all these namespaces now? I'm using RStudio with
> >> roxygen, so I would add an @importFrom stats <function_x_y> where
> >> necessary
> >> - but is this the new requirement as of R >= 3.3?
> >>
> >
> > Yes. And it should have been a requirement before, I believe.
> >
> > Best,
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Best wishes
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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