Use of R internal entry points in packages IBDsim and timeSeries

[Uwe Ligges]

On 07.08.2012 11:08, Yohan Chalabi wrote:
> Dear CRAN maintainers,
>
> Please find a new version of timeSeries without the C level call as mentioned bellow.

Thanks, this is on CRAN now, *but* it still does not fullfill the CRAN 
policies re. the maintainer address, I think Kurt brought it up recently.

Best,
Uwe



>
> Regards,
> Yohan
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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