OK, thanks for the tip on good coding practice. I'm still getting the NOTE though when I make the suggested change.
In case it matters, I'm check'ing with R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) Brad ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > To: "Brad McNeney" <mcne...@sfu.ca> > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Friday, 6 April, 2012 12:18:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD check returns NOTE about package data set as global > variable > > On 06/04/2012 19:46, Brad McNeney wrote: > > I'm developing a package that comes with a data set called > > RutgersMapB36. One of the package's functions requires this data > > frame. A toy example is: > > > > test<-function() { > > data(RutgersMapB36) > > return(RutgersMapB36[,1]) > > } > > > > > > R CMD check returns a NOTE: > > > > test: no visible binding for global variable 'RutgersMapB36' > > > > Is there any way to avoid this NOTE? > > Use data("RutgersMapB36"), which many think is good practice in code. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brad > > --- > > Brad McNeney > > Statistics and Actuarial Science > > Simon Fraser University > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel