R devel - Aug 2011 - autogenerated namespaces not initialized correctly

Hi guys,

This probably isn't news, but when a package is given an autogenerated
namespace, its .First.lib, if any, is no longer called. This causes
problems, e.g., when a package is loading a dynamic library. Probably no
good solution here. The initialization routines could be made to call
.First.lib, code could be rewritten on the fly, a useDynlib() could be added
for a package that has one, etc. Nothing too appealing.

Thanks,
Michael

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This probably isn't news, but when a package is given an autogenerated
> namespace, its .First.lib, if any, is no longer called.
Please do read the NEWS file: .First.lib *is* called as either .onLoad 
or .onAttach.
> This causes problems, e.g., when a package is loading a dynamic 
> library. Probably no good solution here. The initialization routines 
> could be made to call .First.lib, code could be rewritten on the 
> fly, a useDynlib() could be added for a package that has one, etc. 
> Nothing too appealing.
But actually it works well enough in 97% of the cases on CRAN.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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