On 26/04/2017 7:40 PM, sesh...@mskcc.org wrote:
Thanks to Henrik Bengtsson I found a work around which is to use environment(phcoefs) <- 
asNamespace("survival")

It seems like the symbols that are accessed using .Call are not accessible from 
outside the package that defines it.

If it was intended for that function to be called by others, it would have been exported, and you could have called it. It wasn't exported, so Dr. Therneau may decide to change its meaning tomorrow, and your code will break. It will be your own fault.

If you don't like the way coxph.fit was written, you should copy all of it (including the Ccoxfit6 code), not just part. Or better: work with Dr. Therneau to improve it for everyone.

Duncan Murdoch


phcoefs(stim[ii], sts[ii], as.matrix(as.double(cvt[ii])), oo$coefficients, 
control)
Error in phcoefs(stim[ii], sts[ii], as.matrix(as.double(cvt[ii])), 
oo$coefficients,  :
  object 'Ccoxfit6' not found
environment(phcoefs) <- asNamespace("survival")
phcoefs(stim[ii], sts[ii], as.matrix(as.double(cvt[ii])), oo$coefficients, 
control)
[1] -0.4838181

Venkat


________________________________________
From: Duncan Murdoch [murdoch.dun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:17 PM
To: Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.; R-help
Cc: Seshan, Venkatraman E./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
Subject: Re: [R] survival package can't find Ccoxfit6

On 26/04/2017 2:51 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
A user contacted me directly about this, I answered with my best understanding 
of the
recent R-help discussion of the issue, and their response to my response shows 
that I'm
not quite right.

I am emphatically not an MS Windows user so am asking for help -- which I will 
cut/paste
to this user and to the next dozen who will invariably contact me directly.

Thanks,
   Terry Therneau



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: RE: survival package
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:05:30 +0000
From: sesh...@mskcc.org
To: Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. <thern...@mayo.edu>

Thank you for the quick response. The session info command for v3.4.0 does in 
fact report
survival_2.41-3. Furthermore, while both v3.3.1 and v3.40 are on the same 
computer the
library paths do not have any directory in common:

.libPaths()
[1] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.0/library"


and
.libPaths()
[1] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.1/library"



Thanks,
Venkat


-----Original Message-----
From: Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. [mailto:thern...@mayo.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 
April 26, 2017
1:42 PM
To: Seshan, Venkatraman E./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
Subject: Re: survival package

This has been discussed in R-help by multiple people.  You have a pre-3.4 
version of the
survival package somewhere on your search path, and the method for resolving .C 
calls has
changed.   The sessionInfo command should report survival version 2.41-3.

Terry T.


On 04/26/2017 12:17 PM, sesh...@mskcc.org wrote:
Dear Prof. Therneau,

I am encountering an error message when I try to use the coxfit6 routine from 
the survival package under the 3.4.0 version of R. The minimal function and the 
script are in the attached file. This function worked under earlier versions of 
R.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------

***************************
**  Works under R-3.3.1  **
***************************

source("coxfit6-issue.R")
[1] -0.4838181

sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64
(build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4]
LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] survival_2.39-4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Matrix_1.2-6    splines_3.3.1   grid_3.3.1      lattice_0.20-33

----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------

***********************************
**  Does not work under R-3.4.0  **
***********************************

library(survival)
source("coxfit6-issue.R")
Error in .Call("Ccoxfit6", as.integer(control$iter.max), stime, 
as.integer(sstat),  :
   "Ccoxfit6" not available for .Call() for package "survival"

As far as I can see, that line doesn't appear in the current survival
source code, it's from some earlier version of the package.  The current
one has

coxfit <- .Call(Ccoxfit6,
                      as.integer(maxiter),
                      stime,
                      sstat,
                      x[sorted,],
                      as.double(offset[sorted]),
                      weights,
                      newstrat,
                      as.integer(method=="efron"),
                      as.double(control$eps),
                      as.double(control$toler.chol),
                      as.vector(init),
                      as.integer(1))  # internally rescale

There are several differences, the one leading to the error being the
change from "Ccoxfit6" in quotes, to Ccoxfit6 not in quotes.  That
corresponds to the difference between a registered symbol and an
unregistered one.

Without seeing the code that led to the error message I can't really say
how the error came about.  There are a few ways:

- The user has a copy of the coxph.fit function from an older version of
survival saved in their workspace, and are using that one instead of the
current one.

- Some part of your code returns functions, and one of those is making
this call based on an object produced in an earlier version of survival.

- There are really two versions of survival on the search path (or
perhaps copied bits of one), and this call isn't in survival 2.41-3 at all.

Duncan Murdoch

sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64
(build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4]
LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] survival_2.41-3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0  Matrix_1.2-9    splines_3.4.0   grid_3.4.0
[5] lattice_0.20-35

----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------

When I remove the quotes surrounding Ccoxfit6 in the function both versions 
give the error:

Error in phcoefs(stim[ii], sts[ii], as.matrix(as.double(cvt[ii])), 
oo$coefficients,  :
   object 'Ccoxfit6' not found


I would greatly appreciate your help in resolving this.

Thanks,
Venkat Seshan



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