Since writing that, I have found that there is a similar problem with
testing mvoutliers (which does load sp), and it depends on exactly what
has been done in what order. (I'll forward to you the exact description.)
I now suspect there is a protection problem in the new S4 dispatch code.
Using gctorture/valgrind may help locate it.
Brian
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> > Roger,
> >
> > I had managed to run R CMD check on sp successfully on r39021 and r39043
> > (current) in my nightly checks. (There are a couple of tests where the
> > show/print method is not being invoked, but that is not new.)
> >
> > All I can suggest is to install R from scratch (make distclean), and then
> > reinstall all relevant packages. At a guess, your interactive use and R
> > CMD check are picking up different libraries.
>
> Brian,
>
> I added .libPaths() and sessionInfo() to the offending example, and tried
> with a fresh svn checkout built in a fresh directory and installed in a
> fresh directory (no sp or methods in /home/rsb/topics/r_libs, which was
> set with export R_LIBS=):
>
> > data(state)
> > .libPaths()
> [1] "/home/rsb/topics/packages/sp-bundle/sp.Rcheck"
> [2] "/home/rsb/topics/r_libs"
> [3] "/home/rsb/topics/Rtobe240/lib/R/library"
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-31 r39045)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_GB;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB;LC_COLLATE=en_GB;LC_MONETARY=en_GB;LC_
> MESSAGES=en_GB;LC_PAPER=en_GB;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREME
> NT=en_GB;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> sp
> "0.8-19"
> > dd2dms(state.center$x)
> Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
> unable to find an inherited method for function "initialize", for
> signature "integer"
> Execution halted
>
> I also tried to replicate the problem by making a new, very small, package
> with just the apparently offending files:
>
> spS4:
> DESCRIPTION man/ NAMESPACE R/
>
> spS4/man:
> char2dms.Rd DMS-class.Rd
>
> spS4/R:
> AAA.R dms.R
>
> and edited DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, and AAA.R to suit. In this setting
> there was no problem. I'll carry on looking. None of these files has
> changed between released 0.8-18 and CVS 0.8-19.
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > There are around a dozen S4-using packages on CRAN that are currently
> > failing their checks: some look like newly-discovered bugs but some look
> > like problems in S4 dispatch (even of S3 dispatch for S3 generics turned
> > into S4 generics). More are producing apparently incorrect warnings.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Bivand wrote:
> >
> > > Under R version 2.4.0 (2006-08-30 r39024), sp fails CMD check following
> > > the latest changes in methods.
> > >
> > > The failures are in running examples and occur in CMD check:
> > >
> > > > data(state)
> > > > dd2dms(state.center$x)
> > > Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
> > > unable to find an inherited method for function "initialize", for
> > > signature "integer"
> > >
> > > Offending code:
> > >
> > > deg <- as(floor(dd), "integer")
> > >
> > > After replacing by as.integer(floor(dd)), it fails on the local class
> > > definition:
> > >
> > > > dd2dms(state.center$x)
> > > Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
> > > unable to find an inherited method for function "initialize", for
> > > signature "DMS"
> > >
> > > Installing sp, example("DMS-class") runs successfully interactively
> > > (other examples do too).
> > >
> > > The methods package is declared as Depends: in DESCRIPTION, and
> > > import(methods) in NAMESPACE;
> > >
> > > .onLoad <- function(lib, pkg) require(methods) is in the first R source
> > > file in Collate: order.
> > >
> > > Should the methods package be being invoked in some other way, is there a
> > > reason why the installed package appears to run examples successfully
> > > that
> > > fail under CMD check?
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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