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

[Uwe Ligges]

Most of this has been answered by others already. Note that package base 
itself is always imported into the Namespace but names from the other 
packages are not and really need to be if actually used.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 29.06.2015 19:09, Kevin Ushey 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
> <mailto: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 <http://sjp.int>: no visible global function definition
>         for 'sd'
>         sjp.int <http://sjp.int>: no visible global function definition
>         for 'quantile'
>         sjp.int <http://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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