[R-pkg-devel] Building my R package: issue when importing two functions with the same name

[Hugh Parsonage]

Does your package import or depend on 'GmAMisc'? This package appears
to Depend on both spatstat and pROC.

Alternatively you have imported both packages in your NAMESPACE.

If neither of these clues help, could you post your DESCRIPTION and
NAMESPACE files? Probably all we'd need.



On 6 August 2018 at 06:21, Gianmarco Alberti <gianmarcoalberti using gmail.com> wrote:
> I am building a R package, and I am facing an issue caused (as far as I understand) by the fact that some functions out of my package rely on two fuctions having the same name and coming from 2 different packages:
>
> pROC::roc
> spatstat::roc
>
> When checking the package via devtools::check(), I get the following warning:
>
> Warning: replacing previous import ‘spatstat::roc’ by ‘pROC::roc’ when loading ‘GmAMisc’
>
> Note that both packages are listed among the Imports in my package's DESCRIPTION file, and that (within my functions) I have actually used spatstat::roc and pROC::roc where needed.
>
> I have done some web-search but I could not locate any workaround that actually fixes my issue.
>
> Do you have any suggestion on the matter?
>
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