On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Martin Maechler < maech...@lynne.stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: [...]
> > If I have understood your main point correctly, you are > suggesting that 'R CMD check' should start putting out a NOTE > when package code calls a function from one of a set of > "standard packages" (*) and the package author failed to use an > importFrom(<standard pkg>, <function>) > in his/her NAMESPACE. > Yes, correct. I agree that this would be useful. > Actually, I think we have something like this in place already... > but maybe not strictly enough (?) > It is in place for non-standard packages. But not for the standard ones. This code calls a function from all base packages that are loaded by default: https://github.com/gaborcsardi/baseimports/blob/master/R/baseimports.R#L11 and it generates these checks on R-release and R-devel, both without NOTEs or WARNINGs: https://travis-ci.org/gaborcsardi/baseimports/jobs/60903983 https://travis-ci.org/gaborcsardi/baseimports/jobs/60903984 Gabor > > (*) IIUC, you suggested to use > "standard packages" := packages which are attached by default > in R, apart from package 'base' because that does come > immediately after the imports anyway (and because you cannot > explicity import from base). > > > Martin Maechler > ETH Zurich > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
