On 03/29/2012 05:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote:
The 'No visible binding for global variable" is a good example. This
found some bugs in my 'survey' package, which I removed. There is
still one note of this type, which arises when I have to handle two
different versions of the hexbin package with different internal
structures. The note is a false positive because the use is guarded
by an if(), but CMD check can't tell this. So, it's a good idea to
remove all Notes that can be removed without introducing other code
problems, which is nearly all of them, but occasionally there may be a
good reason for code that produces a Note.
The survival package has a similar special case: the routines for
expected population survival are set up to accept multiple types of date
format so have lines like
if (class(x) == 'chron') { y <- as.numeric(x - chron("01/01/1960")}
This leaves me with two extraneous "no visible binding" messages. There
used to be half a dozen but I've tried to remove as many as possible,
for all the good reasons already articulated by the maintainers.
It still remains that 99/100 of the "no visible binding" messages I've
seen over the years were misspelled variable names, and the message is a
very welcome check.
Terry Therneau
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