Use of R internal entry points in packages IBDsim and timeSeries

[Yohan Chalabi]

On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> We see in R CMD check in current R-devel
> 
> * checking foreign function calls ... WARNING
> Foreign function call(s) with ‘PACKAGE’ argument in a base package:
>  .C("find_interv_vec", ..., PACKAGE = "base")
> 
> This is not part of the R API and will be removed shortly.
> 

Thanks for pointing out that find_interv_vec will has been removed from R-dev. We will make the due changes in the timeSeries package.

> Your uses of it are in any case incorrect and dangerous (e.g. length() does not need to return an integer and might be NA: see its help page).
> 
> Please remove this from your code (and be aware that such calls are seen as prime facie evidence of copying from the R sources, which you have not acknowledged).

It is mentioned in the source code that we prefer to call the underlining C routine of findInterval(). Moreover, we only call the C routine and we have not copied the code in findInterval().

Regards,
Yohan

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