Re: [R-pkg-devel] "Imports" for seemingly "base" functions/libraries

2015-07-10 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Wayne Taylor wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I received results from a package development check. On some platforms, I > receive numerous errors such as: > > [my own function]: no visible global function definition for ‘boxplot’ > [my own function]: no visible binding

[R-pkg-devel] "Imports" for seemingly "base" functions/libraries

2015-07-10 Thread Wayne Taylor
Good afternoon, I received results from a package development check. On some platforms, I receive numerous errors such as: [my own function]: no visible global function definition for ‘boxplot’ [my own function]: no visible binding for global variable ‘quantile’ [my own function]: no visible glob

Re: [R-pkg-devel] query about package design

2015-07-10 Thread ProfJCNash
I was kind of hoping to avoid reference classes. The optimization stuff it giving me enough headaches. I've used a local environment successfully in the Rtnmin package (it is a direct conversion from my brother's TN Matlab package, which was able to use "globals" there). JN On 15-07-10 04:17 PM,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] query about package design

2015-07-10 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, ProfJCNash wrote: > I have a general question about appropriate design for a fairly > complicated package, as I am redesigning and rebuilding the optimx > package. It will get a new name as it appears that the calls will change > in order to accommodate new functi

[R-pkg-devel] query about package design

2015-07-10 Thread ProfJCNash
I have a general question about appropriate design for a fairly complicated package, as I am redesigning and rebuilding the optimx package. It will get a new name as it appears that the calls will change in order to accommodate new functionality. I plan to make it fairly easy to add new optimizatio