Right, I should have said import(Hmisc) instead of importFrom(Hmisc), but that does not explain the error message.
Blaser Nello wrote > Not sure this fixes your problem, but as far as I can know (and can tell > from the manual: > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.pdf), importFrom > needs to know what functions you are importing [e.g. importFrom(Hmisc, > "latex") importFrom(stats, "anova")]. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > r-help-bounces@ > [mailto: > r-help-bounces@ > ] On Behalf Of Frank Harrell > Sent: Freitag, 19. April 2013 16:26 > To: > r-help@ > Subject: [R] NAMESPACE and imports > > I am cleaning up the rms package to not export functions not to be called > directly by users. rms uses generic functions defined in other packages. > For example there is a latex method in the Hmisc package, and rms has a > latex method for objects of class "anova.rms" so there are anova.rms and > latex.anova.rms functions in rms. I use: > > export(asis,bj,bjplot,bootBCa,bootcov,bootplot,bplot,calibrate,cph,catg,combineRelatedPredictors,confplot,contrast,coxphFit,cph,cr.setup,datadist,effective.df,fastbw,formatNP,gendata,gIndex,GiniMd,Glm,Gls,groupkm,Hazard,hazard.ratio.plot,histdensity,"%ia%",ie.setup,interactions.containing,legend.nomabbrev,lm.pfit,lrm,lrtest,lsp,matinv,matrx,Newlabels,Newlevels,nomogram,num.intercepts,ols,ols.influence,oos.loglik,pantext,Penalty.matrix,Penalty.setup,pentrace,perimeter,perlcode,plot.xmean.ordinaly,pol,pphsm,predab.resample,Predict,psm,rcs,related.predictors,reVector,robcov,Rq,sascode,scored,sensuc,setPb,show.influence,specs,strat,Surv,"[.Surv",survdiffplot,survest,Survival,survplot,univarLR,validate,val.prob,val.probg,val.surv,vif,which.influence) > > importFrom(Hmisc) > S3method(anova, rms) > S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ols, > pphsm, psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate) > > When doing R CMD INSTALL I get: [using R 2.15.3] > > ** preparing package for lazy loading > Error : c("bad 'S3method' directive: S3method(latex, anova.rms, bj, cph, > Glm, Gls, lrm, naprint.delete, ", "bad 'S3method' directive: ols, > pphsm, > psm, rms, Rq, summary.rms, validate)") > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘rms’ > > Any advice appreciated. > Frank > > > > > ----- > Frank Harrell > Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/NAMESPACE-and-imports-tp4664718.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/NAMESPACE-and-imports-tp4664718p4664728.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.