Seems that methods are being attributed a bit strangely in undoc(). Here's what I get with, I think, current r-devel and SparseM.
R> library(tools) R> undoc("methods") R> library(SparseM) [1] "SparseM library loaded" R> undoc("SparseM") Undocumented code objects: %x% as.matrix diag diag<- diff t Undocumented S4 methods: \S4method{initialize}{traceable} \S4method{initialize}{signature} \S4method{initialize}{environment} R> undoc("methods") Undocumented S4 methods: \S4method{initialize}{matrix.csr} \S4method{initialize}{matrix.coo} Warning message: package:methods is required by package:SparseM (still attached) in: detach(pos = pos) Notice that methods for initialize() seem to be cross-attributed to "methods" and "SparseM". (And despite the message, there IS documentation for both method?initialize("traceable") and method?initialize("matrix.csr"), but of course in the other package.) If it's relevant, after the undoc("methods"), the order of the search list has been altered, with methods in position 2 (maybe related to the warning message when it was detached from its previous position?). The "Undocumented code objects" messages are "real", but not your fault--we'll have to figure what to do about them. You created methods for "diag" (I assume), which is a non-generic in base. The result is to create a generic version of diag(), which is assigned in your package. (In general, with namespaces, I don't think it's possible to assign the generic back into the original package, even just into the exported environment.) R> find("diag") [1] "package:SparseM" "package:base" This creates a formal "conflict" but in my understanding not one that should be reported, nor should you be expected to document the function diag(), as opposed to methods created for it. [Just got back to e-mail after 3 days away. Will look at this and your other mail, probably not until tomorrow.] Thanks, John Roger Koenker wrote: > > I have another S4 methods query -- this time about undocumented objects: > I'm now getting the following warning from R CMD check SparseM: > > * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING > Undocumented code objects: > %x% as.matrix diag diag<- diff t > Undocumented S4 methods: > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,array} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,call} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,character} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,complex} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,environment} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,expression} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,function} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,integer} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,list} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,logical} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,matrix} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,name} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,numeric} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,single} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,ts} \S4method{coerce}{ANY,vector} > \S4method{coerce}{ANY,NULL} > \S4method{coerce}{vector,matrix.diag.csr} > \S4method{diff}{matrix.csr} \S4method{initialize}{traceable} > \S4method{initialize}{signature} \S4method{initialize}{environment} > > A couple of these are directly related to the package, but the rest > seem to be items that I wouldn't have thought that I should be responsible > for documenting. I'm wondering whether the coerce items are related to > my earlier query. Even supposing that they were due to some blunder > of mine, I'm still puzzled by the initialize items which were present > even before I began to mess with my new setClass strategy. Again, > many thanks for any suggestions. > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html Roger Koenker > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- John M. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies office: (908)582-2681 700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-282 fax: (908)582-3340 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 web: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~jmc ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel