Since ncdf4 (and emld) both use S3 class systems, it is sufficient to simply declare
setOldClass("ncdf4") some time prior to using setAs() . Martin On 5/24/19, 6:41 PM, "R-package-devel on behalf of Emmanuel Blondel (GMAIL)" <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of emmanuel.blond...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear all, I write here as i'm in process to submit a revision of /geometa/ package to CRAN in which i've enabled some coercing methods between main metadata object ISOMetadata from geometa, and foreign metadata objects (from emld / ncdf4 packages) I've received a "pre-test archived" notification, because of the folllowing warnings dealing with the coercing: Warning: in method for 'coerce' with signature '"ISOMetadata","emld"': no definition for classes "ISOMetadata", "emld" Warning: in method for 'coerce' with signature '"emld","ISOMetadata"': no definition for classes "emld", "ISOMetadata" Warning: in method for 'coerce' with signature '"ncdf4","ISOMetadata"': no definition for classes "ncdf4", "ISOMetadata" Detail at: https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/geometa_0.5-0_20190524_153346/Windows/00check.log I've found this thread that seems to discuss the same matter: https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/129 . I'm facing the same situation where there is no good reason enough to add emld, ncdf4 as Imports, but rather to keep them as Suggests, as they are only used in these specific converters. In the doubt, i prefer asking here if there is some good practice to deal with these warnings, eventually to avoid it, or if this is considered by CRAN team as false positive. Thanks a lot for your advice, Best, Emmanuel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel