Thank you Martin. This has worked. It was perhaps the suggestion to explicitly call the qcc functions in my code via qcc::
Thanks. -Christos > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Morgan > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:12 PM > To: chris...@nuverabio.com > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] importing/loading package without a namespace > > Hi Christos -- > > Christos Hatzis wrote: > > I am developing a package that imports some functions from > another package. > > The imported package (qcc) does not have a namespace and this is > > causing problems with loading of my package, which has a > namespace. > > Is there a workaround to allow loading the namespace-less package? > > > > I searched the archives and found a suggestion that the > package should > > be included in the Depends list, but this has not helped. > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2007-April/001079.html > > > > Thank you. > > > > The contents of my DESCRIPTION file are: > > > > Package: nvQC > > Type: Package > > ... > > Depends: R(>= 2.5.0), Biobase, qcc > > Imports: affy, RColorBrewer, affyio, nvNormalize > > Suggests: nvCELFiles > > LazyLoad: no > > LazyData: yes > > > > and those of the NAMESPACE file > > > > export(nv.evalQC, gridQC, control.plots) import(qcc, affy) > > If I understand, qcc does not have a name space, so you > cannot import() it. The best you can do is, as you have done, > Depend: qcc. In your code, you can be unambiguous about the > functions you use > > qcc::someQccFunction(<etc>) > > > importFrom(RColorBrewer, brewer.pal) > > importFrom(affyio, read.celfiles) > > importFrom(nvNormalize, norm.options) > > > > The output from R CMD check nvQC > > > > * using log directory > 'C:/Iatros01/Development/RPackages/nvQC/nvQC.Rcheck' > > * using R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) > > * using session charset: ISO8859-1 > > * checking for file 'nvQC/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > > * checking extension type ... Package > > * this is package 'nvQC' version '1.0.0' > > * checking package name space information ... OK > > * checking package dependencies ... OK > > * checking if this is a source package ... OK > > * checking for .dll and .exe files ... OK > > * checking whether package 'nvQC' can be installed ... OK > > * checking package directory ... OK > > * checking for portable file names ... OK > > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > > * checking top-level files ... OK > > * checking index information ... OK > > * checking package subdirectories ... OK > > * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK > > * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK > > * checking whether the package can be loaded ... ERROR Loading > > required package: Biobase > > > > Welcome to Bioconductor > > > > Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type > > 'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see > > 'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. > > > > Loading required package: qcc > > Error : package 'qcc' does not have a name space > > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'nvQC' > > Execution halted > > > > It looks like this package has a loading problem: see the > messages for > > details. > > > > Christos Hatzis, Ph.D. > > Nuvera Biosciences, Inc. > > 400 West Cummings Park > > Suite 5350 > > Woburn, MA 01801 > > Tel: 781-938-3830 > > www.nuverabio.com <http://www.nuverabio.com/> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
