[R] Messge ``no visible binding''.

[Gregory Warnes]

Simply add a definition for this variable to the source for your package,
e.g.;

.Last.make.date <- NULL

And the warning should go away.

-g


On 6/30/08 11:44PM , "Rolf Turner" <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> 
> 
> I have written a function make.fun(), which I keep in my personal
> ``miscellaneous'' package.  It searches the current working directory
> for files named ``*.R'' and sources them if their modification date
> is later than the date stored in ``.Last.make.date''.  (The variable
> .Last.make.date then gets updated.)  The function checks whether
> .Last.make.date exists before comparing its value with the modification
> dates of the *.R files.
> 
> When I do R CMD check on my ``miscellaneous'' package, I get a ``NOTE''
> (not even a warning!) to the effect:
> 
> ``no visible binding for global variable '.Last.make.date'
> 
> 
> Is this something that I should worry about at all?  Am I running any
> risk by this procedure? Is there a better way to check whether code file
> have modified sufficiently recently that they need to be re-sourced?
> 
> Thanks for any tips.  (But no asparagus, please! :-) )
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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