[R]package dependence

Torsten Hothorn Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de
Thu Feb 15 10:44:40 CET 2001


> Hi,
> 
> I want to create several packages, with package Aa depending on functions
> in package A. My directories with .r and .Rd are organized as follows
> 
> ./A/man/*.Rd
> ./A/R/*.r
> ./Aa/man/*.Rd
> ./Aa/R/*.r
> 
> Afre creatin package A with 
> 
> R CMD check A 
> R CMD INSTALL --library=lib A
> 
> I then have
> ./lib/A/help  etc
> 
> If I try to do
> 
> R CMD check Aa 
> R CMD INSTALL --library=lib Aa
> 
> I am getting
> 
> * checking examples ... ERROR
> and in ./Aa.Rcheck/Aa-Ex.Rout
> 
> there is the error signalled
> 
> 	couldn't find function "function.from.A"
> Execution halted

as far as I know: use Aa/R/zzz.R to load A using

require(A)

Torsten

> 
> Since I rather want to keep the packages separate, how can I deal with
> dependences among packages?
> 
> 
> Thanks for help.
> --christian
> 
> Dr.sc.math.Christian W. Hoffmann
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