(Sorry, this was previously sent with HTML mail. Resending in plain text.) I've been seeing warnings when unloading packages. They can be seen with the shiny and sp packages, among others (this is on R 3.0.2). For example: > library(sp) > unloadNamespace('sp') Warning messages: 1: In FUN(X[[2L]], ...) : Created a package name, ‘2013-12-19 12:14:24’, when none found 2: In FUN(X[[2L]], ...) : Created a package name, ‘2013-12-19 12:14:24’, when none found 3: In FUN(X[[2L]], ...) : Created a package name, ‘2013-12-19 12:14:24’, when none found 4: In FUN(X[[2L]], ...) : Created a package name, ‘2013-12-19 12:14:24’, when none found
It appears to be related to the methods:::.removeSuperclassBackRefs function. I can get the warnings to appear when the following are both true: * The package has an S4 class which inherits from a class outside of the package. * The NAMESPACE file contains import(methods) I've created some very simple test packages here which illustrate the problem, along with instructions on how to duplicate the warning. https://github.com/wch/s4unload The warnings only appear when unloading the package where both of the conditions above are true. I'm not sure why import(methods) should make a difference, but it does. Is this a bug in the implementation of S4? Best, -Winston ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel