Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
> Uwe Ligges > on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:58:17 +0200 writes: > On 12.06.2015 18:22, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: >> Actually, between this and other things coming from 'R >> CMD check' these days, I disagree that this is reasonable >> at all - it's a hack > Why a hack? I am

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 12.06.2015 18:22, Roebuck,Paul L wrote: Actually, between this and other things coming from 'R CMD check' these days, I disagree that this is reasonable at all - it's a hack Why a hack? I am not sure what the right mechanism is, but here the check is not the problem but it uncovers the pr

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Roebuck,Paul L
Actually, between this and other things coming from 'R CMD check' these days, I disagree that this is reasonable at all - it's a hack at best that only fixes this particular issue. Better would be to introduce lint-like directives that turn off certain R CMD check notes/warnings at different scopes

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Xavier Robin
On 10/06/15 16:12, John Fox wrote: > Is there any way to suppress the note without removing all.effects()? Dear John, I raised this question on the Rd list a couple of months ago and didn't get an answer (when asking the CRAN maintainers directly they suggested to rename the functions). https://

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread John Fox
Dear Martin, Thank you for addressing this issue. Introducing a nonS3method() directive in NAMESPACE seems a reasonable solution. It could replace export() for functions with "."s in their names. Best, John On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:55:18 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: > > John Fox > >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Dear Martin, dear package developers, I had a very similar case three days ago in one of our packages. Our aim was to provide an S3 method matplot.deSolve and an alternative and more specific non-S3 function matplot.1D because the .1D follows the naming scheme of other related functions. The not

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> John Fox > on Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:12:46 -0400 writes: > Dear list members, > One of the packages I maintain, effects, generates the following note in R > CMD check: > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE > Found the following apparent S3 methods exp

Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> John Fox > on Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:12:46 -0400 writes: > Dear list members, > One of the packages I maintain, effects, generates the following note in R > CMD check: > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE > Found the following apparent S3 methods exp

[R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check

2015-06-10 Thread John Fox
Dear list members, One of the packages I maintain, effects, generates the following note in R CMD check: * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered: all.effects The offending function, all.effect