Dear R devels, let's say I have three packages "pkg1", "pkg2" and "pkg3" which all contain new S4 classes and methods. Where "pkg3" depends on "pkg2" and "pkg2" depends on "pkg1". Moreover, all three packages have namespaces.
1) I use ".onLoad <- function(lib, pkg) require(methods)". Do I also have to import the namespace of "methods" package? 2) If I use import("pkg1") in the namespace of "pkg2", does this also (correctly) import the S4 classes and methods of "pkg1"? Or do I explicitly have to use importClassesFrom resp. importMethodsFrom? 3) If I import the Namespace of "pkg2" in "pkg3", where the namespace of "pkg2" has import("pkg1") (or maybe importClassesFrom, importMethodsFrom) and I also want to use S4 classes and methods of "pkg1" in "pkg3". Is it sufficient to have import("pkg2") in the Namespace of "pkg3" or do I need import("pkg1") and import("pkg2")? Many thanks for your help and advice Matthias -- StaMatS - Statistik + Mathematik Service Dipl.Math.(Univ.) Matthias Kohl www.stamats.de ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel