[Rd] package.skeleton() in R-2.4.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The issue here is the incomplete deparsing of S4 objects in pre-2.4.0.

I am really not sure you want to make a package this way: rather I would 
want the setClass etc calls in the package code.

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Robin Hankin wrote:

> Hi
> 
> R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-06 r39158)
> MacOSX 10.4.7
> 
> 
> There was a thread some time ago as to whether  the structure created by
> package.skeleton() would pass R CMD check.
> 
> I have an example where package.skeleton() gives an R file that gives an
> error when sourced.
> 
> 
> If I type
> 
> setClass("brob",
>           representation = representation 
> (x="numeric",positive="logical"),
>           prototype      = list(x=numeric(),positive=logical())
>           )
> 
> setGeneric("getX",function(x){standardGeneric("getX")})
> setMethod("getX","brob",function(x){x at x})
> 
> 
> (which is legal, AFAICS), then
> 
> package.skeleton(path="~")
> 
> I get a file ~/anRpackage/R/getX.R containing:
> 
> 
> "getX" <-
> structure(function(x){standardGeneric("getX")}
> , generic = structure("getX", package = ".GlobalEnv"), package = 
> ".GlobalEnv", group = list(), valueClass = character(0), signature = 
> "x", default = <S4
> object of class structure("MethodsList", package = "methods")>, 
> skeleton = quote(function (x)
> stop("invalid call in method dispatch to 'getX' (no default method)",
>      domain = NA)(x)), class = structure 
> ("nonstandardGenericFunction", package = "methods"))
> 
> 
> [subject to line breaking] but this file gives an error when
> sourced (below).   I didn't get this problem with R-2.3.1.
> 
>
>  > > source("/Users/rksh/anRpackage/R/getX.R")
> Error in parse(file, n = -1, NULL, "?") : syntax error at
> 2: structure(function(x){standardGeneric("getX")}
> 3: , generic = structure("getX", package = ".GlobalEnv"), package = 
> ".GlobalEnv", group = list(), valueClass = character(0), signature = 
> "x", default = <
>  >
> 
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> 
> 
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> Robin Hankin
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