[R] vague errors on R CMD check for very minimal S4-style package

From: Roels, Steven <Steven.Roels_at_mpi.com>
Date: Wed 07 Jun 2006 - 06:52:58 EST

Hello,

I have a very minimal package "simplepkg" (DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, and R) with S4 classes/methods (defines a class "foo" and a show method for that class" - both the class and show method are exported). I can seemingly install the package, then load and use it:

> sessionInfo()
Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
sparc-sun-solaris2.10

attached base packages:

[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
"datasets"  "base"     

> library(simplepkg,lib.loc="/home/roels/R/lib")

>
> getClass("foo")

Slots:

                          
Name:       name       age

Class: character numeric

> 
> myfoo <- new("foo",name="abc",age=10)
> myfoo

I am abc
>

But when I do R CMD check, it fails (or perhaps the "errors" are really "warnings"??):

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sun890% R CMD check simplepkg
* checking for working latex ... OK

• using log directory '/home/roels/R/dev/simplepkg/simplepkg.Rcheck'
• using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
• checking for file 'simplepkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
• checking extension type ... Package
• this is package 'simplepkg' version '0.1-1'
• checking package dependencies ... OK
• checking if this is a source package ... OK
• checking whether package 'simplepkg' can be installed ... OK
• checking package directory ... OK
• checking for portable file names ... OK
• checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
• checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
• checking top-level files ... OK
• checking index information ... OK
• checking package subdirectories ... OK
• checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
• checking R files for library.dynam ... OK
• checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING Error: package/namespace load failed for 'simplepkg' Call sequence: 2: stop(gettextf("package/namespace load failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)), call. = FALSE, domain = NA) 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) Execution halted See section 'Generic functions and methods' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
• checking replacement functions ... WARNING Error: package/namespace load failed for 'simplepkg' Call sequence: 2: stop(gettextf("package/namespace load failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)), call. = FALSE, domain = NA) 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) Execution halted In R, the argument of a replacement function which corresponds to the right hand side must be named 'value'.
• checking foreign function calls ... WARNING Error: package/namespace load failed for 'simplepkg' Call sequence: 2: stop(gettextf("package/namespace load failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)), call. = FALSE, domain = NA) 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose = FALSE) Execution halted See section 'System and foreign language interfaces' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
• checking for missing documentation entries ... ERROR Error: package/namespace load failed for 'simplepkg'

Here are the file contents:

---

sun890% cat DESCRIPTION
Package: simplepkg
Type: Package
Title: Does stuff
Version: 0.1-1
Date: 2006-06-06
Author: Me
Maintainer: Also Me <me@here.com>
Description: Does interesting stuff
License: GPL

sun890% cat NAMESPACE
exportClasses("foo")
exportMethods("show")

### cat simplepkg.R #class def and show method  

setClass("foo",representation(name="character",age="numeric"))

setMethod("show", "foo", function(object) cat("I am ",object@name,"\n",sep=" "))

### cat zzz.R # required .onLoad for use of S4-style classes/methods
.onLoad <- function(lib,pkg) require(methods)

As I said, the package "seems" to work, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something that was going to come back to bite me later.

Thanks,

-Steve

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Steve Roels, Ph.D. Senior Scientist I
Computational Biology
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc
640 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139-4815

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