[Rd] R CMD check and missing imports from base packages

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:28 PM, John Nolan <jpnolan at american.edu> wrote:
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> 1. have R CMD check show how every external function reference gets
> resolved.
>

That's not possible, because it depends on the currently attached packages,
and even on the order of their attachment.


> 2. have R CMD check warn anytime there is a potential name conflict, e.g.
> density( ) coming from either igraph or stats, and show how it was resolved.
>

Also not possible in practice, because it would need to check too many
packages. But it would not be a good solution in my opinion, anyway,
because you probably don't want people having to deal with these issues. I
surely don't. For the developer of a single package, it should be
completely irrelevant how many other packages use the same function names.

Gabor

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