Yea, good point, it should probably do that in the methods namespace.
Still, flowCore should probably just import(methods) for the sake of
simplicity.
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fredhutch.org>
wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 05:37 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
>> All S4-based packages should probably have methods in Depends and imported
>> in NAMESPACE.
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Josef Spidlen <jspid...@bccrc.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>> I just noticed the following:
>>>
>>> Contents of my file x.R:
>>> library("flowCore")
>>> x <- read.FCS('test.fcs')
>>>
>>> Then running the following from a command line:
>>> Rscript 'x.R'
>>>
>>> Outputs:
>>> Error in object@description[["ORIGINALGUID"]] <- object@description
>>> [["GUID"]]
>>> :
>>> could not find function "checkAtAssignment"
>>> Calls: read.FCS -> identifier<- -> identifier<-
>>> Execution halted
>>>
>>
> flowCore doesn't use checkAtAssignment directly. If R can find @<-,
> shouldn't it be able to find checkAtAssignment?
>
> The methods package defines but does not use checkAtAssignment in R code,
> but it is called from C in main/attrib.c:1479. I guess the C-level
> evaluation is in the wrong environment?
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
>>> This only happens when executing using Rscript. Adding library("methods")
>>> to the script resolves this issue. So it looks like flowCore may be
>>> using checkAtAssignment without declaring so in the NAMESPACE, and this
>>> issue is normally not noticeable since "methods" are typically loaded
>>> automatically, but not when using Rscript.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Josef
>>>
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