Dear all,
It is my understanding that using 'importFrom' in the NAMESPACE of a package
allows to avoid conflicts between different packages defining objects with
identical names. However, I can still see conflicts while loading the package
using 'library'.
Here is a toy example, with a package 'foo' importing 'as.igraph' from the
igraph package, and 'nj' from ape.
'foo' uses the following DESCRIPTION file:
----------------------
Package: foo
Version: 0.0-0
Date: 2013/06/04
Title: foo
Author: John Doe
Maintainer: John Doe <j...@nowhere.org>
Imports: igraph, ape
Description: just a test.
License: GPL (>=2)
LazyLoad: yes
----------------------
And the following NAMESPACE:
----------------------
## Export all names
exportPattern(".")
## Export all classes
exportClassPattern(".")
## Import all packages listed as Imports or Depends
importFrom(igraph, as.igraph)
importFrom(ape, nj)
----------------------
The check (R 3.0.1) passes without warnings, but then when loading the package:
> library(foo)
Warning messages:
1: replacing previous import ‘as.igraph’ when loading ‘ape’
2: replacing previous import ‘edges’ when loading ‘ape’
>
I would have assumed only ape::nj and igraph::as.igraph would be imported when
loading 'foo', so this conflict should not occur.
There is probably something simple I have missed as I have just began to pay
attention to NAMESPACES recently. Reading this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8637993/better-explanation-of-when-to-use-imports-depends
clarified things a bit, but I still don't understand the warning above.
Any clarification will be much appreciated.
All the best
Thibaut
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Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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