similar to: Questions about name space directives

In > R.version.string [1] "R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-15 r57901)" section 1.6.6 of 'Writing R Extensions' says Note that exporting methods on a generic in the namespace will also export the generic, and exporting a generic in the namespace will also export its methods. and Note that importMethodsFrom will also import any generics defined in

I have encountered an issue which I have been unable to resolve, involving an S3 generic (print) being declared S4 generic in a package, and the method being exported. This all works fine - the problem occurs when I try to import the method to another package. Here is the bit that works fine. ------------- #the .r file for package bar

parseNamespaceFile() doesn't seem to detect misspelled directives. Looking at its code I see switch(as.character(e[[1L]]), <lots of args omitted here>, stop(gettextf("unknown namespace directive: %s", deparse(e)), call. = FALSE, domain = NA)) but this doesn't seem to function as I expect, viz. to stop with an error if I type a wrong directive.

I have a question about what to do in the following situation (please bear with the setup): Package A defines an S4 generic 'foo' and as well as S4 methods for 'foo' and has exportMethods("foo") in its NAMESPACE file. Package B defines another method for 'foo' for class "bar" and has importFrom(A, "foo") exportMethods("foo")

Late to the show on this release, unfortunately. One of our production packages no longer builds under R-2.15.0 with the following message. ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error: Function found when exporting methods from the namespace 'SuperCurve' which is not S4 generic: 'image' Possibly relevant clues follow: ## From R/AllGenerics.R if

The current version of the methods package now has a namespace. Packages using S4 methods and classes can have NAMESPACE files. New directives can be included in NAMESPACE files to import and export classes and methods. Namespaces allow cleaner definition of the API for packages, and are needed for future improvements to R. NOTE: This is a major revision. In principle, it should be back

Dear list, I have another (again possibly boneheaded) puzzle about importing, again encapsulated in a nearly trivial package. (The package is posted at <http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/bolker/misc/coefsumtest_0.001.tar.gz>.) The package consists (only) of the following S3 method definitions: coeftab <- function(object, ...) UseMethod("coeftab",object) coeftab.default <-

Dear list, It seems that a package (pkgB) using another package (pkgA) with S4 generics formed by taking existing functions (for example 'plot') must not import the existing functions ('plot') in its namespace to avoid the warning "replacing previous import: plot". Suppose we use the simple 'import' directive in the name space of pkgB. pkgA and pkgB files would

pkgA's NAMESPACE has importFrom(graphics, plot) exportClasses("A") exportMethods("plot") R/foo.R has setClass("A") setMethod("plot", "A", function(x, y, ...) {}) During R CMD INSTALL pkgA_1.0.tar.gz we are told ** preparing package for lazy loading Creating a generic function for 'plot' from package

In > R.version.string [1] "R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-15 r57901)" PkgA promotes 'unique' to a generic and exports that DESCRIPTION: Imports: methods R/f.R: setGeneric("unique") NAMESPACE: export(unique) and PkgB creates and exports a method on unique DESCRIPTION Imports: methods, PkgA R/f.R: setClass("B",

Dear listers, After activating the name space for my bioconductor package (prada) I successfully ran R CMD check. However when loading the package in R and running the examples the imported function brewer.pal from package RColorBrewer is not found. I can directly call brewer.pal from the RColorBrewer name space typing RColorBrewer::brewer.pal, but it is not imported into my prada name space. When

Dear listers, After activating the name space for my bioconductor package (prada) I successfully ran R CMD check. However when loading the package in R and running the examples the imported function brewer.pal from package RColorBrewer is not found. I can directly call brewer.pal from the RColorBrewer name space typing RColorBrewer::brewer.pal, but it is not imported into my prada name space. When

Hello, I'm trying to make .DollarNames generic and implement a method for it in a package. .DollarNames is the function that is now called to get completion possibilities. My R code looks like this: setGeneric( ".DollarNames" ) setClass("track", representation(x="numeric", y="numeric")) ## A class extending the previous, adding one more

The package I'm working on can extract data from external packages but would otherwise have no dependency on them. However, I desire to be able to dispatch based on an external S3 class if its package is attached (.First.lib). My code is S4-based and its package has NAMESPACE. Registering the external class prior to the other package being attached doesn't seem to work so I am attempting

Hi the list I am creating a package and I have a problem to define a S4 method for plot. I define a class 'A' and a class 'B'. I want to define a function plot for signature c(A,missing) and another method plot for signature c(A,B). My code is the following : In /package/R/ directory: --- main.R --- setGeneric("plot",function(x,y,...){standardGeneric("plot")})

Hi, I have a S4 based package package that was loading fine on R 2.5.0 on both OS X and Linux. I was checking the package against 2.5.1 and doing R CMD check does not give any warnings. So I next built the package and installed it. Though the package installed fine I noticed the following message: Loading required package: methods Error in loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc),

Dear List: Sorry for posting maybe a trivial question, but I have a basic understanding problem. If I have say pack1 and pack2, two R packages, and pack2 depends on and imports pack1 fully (as in the code below), is there a way to make all the functionality of pack1 available for the global and other environments (not only for the functions called from withing pack2) by loading pack2 only? I

We are building a package, and want to create S4 methods for both head and mean for our own BigMatrix class. Following the recommendation in "Writing R Extensions" we use exportMethods instead of export in NAMESPACE (this is described as being "clearer"). This works for head, but not for mean. Obviously we importFrom(utils, head), but don't need to do this for mean,

In this post https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2013-March/004152.html a package author reports that S4 dispatch fails. I can reproduce this with a PkgA (attached; 'intervals' is a relatively light-weight CRAN package) that has DESCRIPTION with Depends: intervals Imports: graphics NAMESPACE: importFrom(graphics, "plot") export("plot")

Dear all, I am experiencing some problems with S4 method overloading. I have defined a generic for graphics:plot, using setGeneric("plot", useAsDefault = plot) and with importFrom('graphics', 'plot') and exportMethods('plot') in the NAMESPACE file of pkg A. I then proceed to define a method for signature c('myS4class', 'missing'). This works