Hello R users, I am trying to make a my first package and I get an error that I can understand. The package is build out of three files (one for functions, 1 for s4 classes and 1 for s4 methods).
Once I source them I run package.skeleton( name="TDC" ) within a R session and I get Creating directories ... Creating DESCRIPTION ... Creating Read-and-delete-me ... Saving functions and data ... Making help files ... Done. Further steps are described in './TDC/Read-and-delete-me'. Warning messages: 1: In dump(internalObjs, file = file.path(code_dir, sprintf("%s-internal.R", : deparse of an S4 object will not be source()able 2: In dump(internalObjs, file = file.path(code_dir, sprintf("%s-internal.R", : deparse of an S4 object will not be source()able 3: In dump(internalObjs, file = file.path(code_dir, sprintf("%s-internal.R", : deparse of an S4 object will not be source()able 4: In dump(internalObjs, file = file.path(code_dir, sprintf("%s-internal.R", : deparse may be incomplete I keep going in spite of the warnings with R CMD check --no-examples TDC and I get * checking for working pdflatex ... OK * using log directory '/home/mariepierre/Packages/PermAlgo/PermAlgo/PermAlgo2/TDC.Rcheck' * using R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) * using session charset: UTF-8 * checking for file 'TDC/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * checking extension type ... Package * this is package 'TDC' version '1.0' * checking package dependencies ... OK * checking if this is a source package ... OK * checking whether package 'TDC' can be installed ... ERROR Installation failed. The error file says: * Installing *source* package 'TDC' ... ** R ** preparing package for lazy loading Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : unexpected '<' at 102: `.__C__BindArgs` <- 103: < Calls: <Anonymous> -> code2LazyLoadDB -> sys.source -> parse Execution halted ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'TDC' ** Removing '/home/mariepierre/Packages/PermAlgo/PermAlgo/PermAlgo2/TDC.Rcheck/TDC' The problem is with my classes and methods. The respective files contain: setClass("BindArgs", signature( "function" )) setClass("BindArgs2", signature( "function" )) and setMethod("initialize", "BindArgs", function( .Object, f, ... ) callNextMethod( .Object, function( x ) f( x, ... ) )) setMethod("initialize", "BindArgs2", function( .Object, f, ...) callNextMethod( .Object, function( x, y ) f( x, y, ... ) )) Everything works well within a R session but I can build the package. If I look at the internal R file that this created I get `.__C__BindArgs` <- <S4 object of class structure("classRepresentation", package = "methods")> `.__C__BindArgs2` <- <S4 object of class structure("classRepresentation", package = "methods")> `.__M__initialize:methods` <- <S4 object of class structure("MethodsList", package = "methods")> `.__T__initialize:methods` <- <environment> Well, let just say that I am new to classes so this confuses me greatly. I have checked the documentation and tried a few things but I reached my personal limits! I am using R 2.7.1 on Linux Fedora 8. Any comments on what is happening and/or help would be greatly appreciated. MP ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.