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

[Zhian Kamvar]

Does this also mean that we now need to include these packages (stats, graphics, etc) in the Imports field of the DESCRIPTION?

Thanks,
Zhian
> On Jun 29, 2015, at 10:09 , 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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