Yes, indeed, it is confusing. You don't need to file a new bug report, though. There is one already:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17179 Please feel free to comment there. This thread could serve as another confirmation. :-) Best regards, Sebastian Am 20. Juli 2020 18:36:21 MESZ schrieb Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com>: > I think this is a classic confusing R message. Try adding methods >to the Imports: statement in your DESCRIPTION file and see if that >helps. (Maybe I should file a bug report about that error message - it >confuses me every time.) > >On 7/20/20 12:34 PM, Tim Keitt wrote: >> It works but "check" gives >> >> > checking package dependencies ... ERROR >> Namespace dependency not required: ‘methods’ >> >> THK >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:24 AM Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bbol...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> @importFrom methods as >> >> ? >> >> On 7/20/20 12:06 PM, Tim Keitt wrote: >> > I have >> > >> > if (!inherits(x, "RasterLayer")) x <- as(x, "RasterLayer") >> > >> > in a package and its not finding the coerce definition from the >> raster >> > package. I know I need to add an @import roxygen2 directive of >> some kind, >> > but I'm not sure the correct syntax. My first try generated a >> warning that >> > it was not needed. >> > >> > What is the correct way to do this? Or does raster need to >> export this >> > definition? >> > >> > THK >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-package-devel@r-project.org >> <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org >> <mailto:R-package-devel@r-project.org> mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > > [[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