[R-pkg-devel] no visible global function definition for ‘par’

[Brian G. Peterson]

See the link in my email below.  It says:
"Packages implicitly import the base namespace. Variables exported from
other packages with namespaces need to be imported explicitly using the
directives import and importFrom."

Regards,

Brian

On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 11:04 -0600, Cathy Lee Gierke wrote:
> That is the obvious solution, but it doesn't seem correct:  I have
> pdf included in the description, and namespace files, yet it is being
> called out.  Additionally, aren't most of these pkgs in the packages
> included by default?
> 
> And up until yesterday, I didn't have any of these problems.  I've
> been compiling and running this for several years.  But now I want to
> release to CRAN, so I've been fixing minor issues....and suddenly
> this mass of Notes.  
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Cathy Lee Gierke
>       
> “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate
> cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
> 
> “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards
> justice.”
> “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
> conscientious stupidity.” 
> “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”   
> “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” 
> “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  
> 
> ― Martin Luther King Jr.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.
> com> wrote:
> > The error you reference below is pretty clear, I think.
> > 
> > You need to add imports for all the functions you're using from
> > other packages. 
> > 
> > See: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#S
> > pecifying-imports-and-exports
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian G. Peterson
> > http://braverock.com/brian/
> > Ph: 773-459-4973
> > IM: bgpbraverock
> > 
> > On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 10:39 -0600, Cathy Lee Gierke wrote:
> > > Yes, that seemed to get rid of the NOTE....but it doesn't seem to
> > > make much difference other than that.  i.e., it seems to process
> > > the same using CATkit vs CATkit_2.06.tar.gz!
> > > 
> > > Here is the main error that I am getting.  I just upgraded to the
> > > latest R version, fyi.
> > > 
> > > Everything was fine, a few minor warnings...now this. 
> > > Description and namespace are proper.  These pkgs should all be
> > > part of the R base, aren't they? Anyone know why I should get
> > > these errors?  Thanks!
> > > 
> > > * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
> > > Actogram: no visible global function definition for ‘par’
> > > Actogram: no visible global function definition for ‘barplot’
> > > Actogram: no visible global function definition for ‘box’
> > > Actogram: no visible global function definition for ‘text’
> > > Actogram: no visible global function definition for ‘mtext’
> > > Actogram: no visible binding for global variable ‘end’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘par’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘layout’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘acf’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘abline’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘title’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘mtext’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible global function definition for ‘var’
> > > AutoCorr: no visible binding for global variable ‘end’
> > > CATCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘par’
> > > CATCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘pdf’
> > > CATCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘jpeg’
> > > CATCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘png’
> > > CATCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘tiff’
> > > ......... A zillion more for every function I have......
> > > periCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘par’
> > > periCosinor: no visible global function definition for ‘fft’
> > > Undefined global functions or variables:
> > >   TukeyHSD abline acf aov as.raster axis barplot box boxplot ccf
> > >   coefficients dev.cur dev.off drop1 end fft gray heat.colors
> > > image
> > >   jpeg layout legend lines median model.tables mtext na.action
> > > na.omit
> > >   palette par pdf pf plot plot.new png points rainbow rasterImage
> > >   read.table str strwidth tail terrain.colors text tiff title ts
> > > var
> > >   write.table
> > > Consider adding
> > >   importFrom("grDevices", "as.raster", "dev.cur", "dev.off",
> > > "gray",
> > >              "heat.colors", "jpeg", "palette", "pdf", "png",
> > > "rainbow",
> > >              "terrain.colors", "tiff")
> > >   importFrom("graphics", "abline", "axis", "barplot", "box",
> > > "boxplot",
> > >              "image", "layout", "legend", "lines", "mtext",
> > > "par",
> > >              "plot", "plot.new", "points", "rasterImage",
> > > "strwidth",
> > >              "text", "title")
> > >   importFrom("stats", "TukeyHSD", "acf", "aov", "ccf",
> > > "coefficients",
> > >              "drop1", "end", "fft", "median", "model.tables",
> > >              "na.action", "na.omit", "pf", "ts", "var")
> > >   importFrom("utils", "read.table", "str", "tail", "write.table")
> > > to your NAMESPACE file.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Cathy Lee Gierke
> > >       
> > > “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate
> > > cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
> > > 
> > > “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards
> > > justice.”
> > > “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
> > > and conscientious stupidity.” 
> > > “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
> > >   
> > > “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant
> > > attitude.” 
> > > “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  
> > > 
> > > ― Martin Luther King Jr.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braver
> > > ock.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 09:45 -0600, Cathy Lee Gierke wrote:
> > > > >  building ‘CATkit_2.06.tar.gz’
> > > > 
> > > > R CMD build creates a tarball
> > > > 
> > > > > x-134-84-0-217:CATkit user$ *R CMD check CATkit*
> > > > 
> > > > but you are checknig the directory, not the tarball.
> > > > 
> > > > do
> > > > 
> > > > R CMD check CATkit_2.06.tar.gz
> > > > 
> > > > instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Brian
> > > >