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

[Gianmarco Alberti]

@Duncan:

Extremely interesting...thanks.

Gm


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Il 7 ago 2018, 13:11 +0200, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>, ha scritto:
> On 05/08/2018 4:21 PM, Gianmarco Alberti 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
> >
>
> As Iñaki pointed out, the main issue is that you should be using Import
> rather than Depends. But I didn't see mentioned the fact that the
> NAMESPACE file can rename a function when you import it, e.g.
>
> importFrom(pROC, pROCroc = roc)
> importFrom(spatstat, spatstatroc = roc)
>
> Now in your own functions you can use pROCroc() or spatstatroc() and
> they won't conflict.
>
> (I was going to point you to the documentation for this, but I am not
> sure it is properly documented anywhere.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> > 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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