R help - Apr 2013 - NAMESPACE and imports

I am cleaning up the rms package to not export functions not to be called
directly by users.  rms uses generic functions defined in other packages. 
For example there is a latex method in the Hmisc package, and rms has a
latex method for objects of class "anova.rms" so there are anova.rms
and
latex.anova.rms functions in rms.  I use:

export(asis,bj,bjplot,bootBCa,bootcov,bootplot,bplot,calibrate,cph,catg,combineRelatedPredictors,confplot,contrast,coxphFit,cph,cr.setup,datadist,effective.df,fastbw,formatNP,gendata,gIndex,GiniMd,Glm,Gls,groupkm,Hazard,hazard.ratio.plot,histdensity,"%ia%",ie.setup,interactions.containing,legend.nomabbrev,lm.pfit,lrm,lrtest,lsp,matinv,matrx,Newlabels,Newlevels,nomogram,num.intercepts,ols,ols.influence,oos.loglik,pantext,Penalty.matrix,Penalty.setup,pentrace,perimeter,perlcode,plot.xmean.ordinaly,pol,pphsm,predab.resample,Predict,psm,rcs,related.predictors,reVector,robcov,Rq,sascode,scored,sensuc,setPb,show.influence,specs,strat,Surv,"[.Surv",survdiffplot,survest,Survival,survplot,univarLR,validate,val.prob,val.probg,val.surv,vif,which.influence)

importFrom(Hmisc)
S3method(anova, rms)
S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ols,
pphsm, psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)

When doing R CMD INSTALL I get: [using R 2.15.3]

** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : c("bad 'S3method' directive: S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj,
cph,
Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ", "bad 'S3method' directive:  
ols, pphsm,
psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)")
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?rms?

Any advice appreciated.
Frank




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Hi Frank,

The problem is you can't lump together multiple S3 methods.  Instead of:
> S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ols,
> pphsm, psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)
You need

S3method(latex, anova.rms)
S3method(latex, bj)
S3method(latex, cph)

etc.

Hadley

--
Chief Scientist, RStudio
http://had.co.nz/

Not sure this fixes your problem, but as far as I can know (and can tell from
the manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.pdf),
importFrom needs to know what functions you are importing [e.g.
importFrom(Hmisc, "latex") importFrom(stats, "anova")].


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Subject: [R] NAMESPACE and imports

I am cleaning up the rms package to not export functions not to be called
directly by users.  rms uses generic functions defined in other packages.
For example there is a latex method in the Hmisc package, and rms has a latex
method for objects of class "anova.rms" so there are anova.rms and
latex.anova.rms functions in rms.  I use:

export(asis,bj,bjplot,bootBCa,bootcov,bootplot,bplot,calibrate,cph,catg,combineRelatedPredictors,confplot,contrast,coxphFit,cph,cr.setup,datadist,effective.df,fastbw,formatNP,gendata,gIndex,GiniMd,Glm,Gls,groupkm,Hazard,hazard.ratio.plot,histdensity,"%ia%",ie.setup,interactions.containing,legend.nomabbrev,lm.pfit,lrm,lrtest,lsp,matinv,matrx,Newlabels,Newlevels,nomogram,num.intercepts,ols,ols.influence,oos.loglik,pantext,Penalty.matrix,Penalty.setup,pentrace,perimeter,perlcode,plot.xmean.ordinaly,pol,pphsm,predab.resample,Predict,psm,rcs,related.predictors,reVector,robcov,Rq,sascode,scored,sensuc,setPb,show.influence,specs,strat,Surv,"[.Surv",survdiffplot,survest,Survival,survplot,univarLR,validate,val.prob,val.probg,val.surv,vif,which.influence)

importFrom(Hmisc)
S3method(anova, rms)
S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ols, pphsm,
psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)

When doing R CMD INSTALL I get: [using R 2.15.3]

** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : c("bad 'S3method' directive: S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj,
cph,
Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ", "bad 'S3method' directive:  
ols, pphsm,
psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)")
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ?rms?

Any advice appreciated.
Frank




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Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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