On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Marsland, John wrote:
> I have been building a package around a sequence of S4 classes which I have
> coded in separate *.R files in the "./R" subdirectory of the package.
> The package builds without error, but when I load it in R I get:
[Incidentally, packages with R syntax errors `build without errors': that
is not a useful test.]
> Error in reconcilePropertiesAndPrototype(name, slots, prototype,
> superClasses) :
> Class "xxxx" extends an undefined class ("yyyyyy"
>
> I guess R is trying to source the *.R files in the wrong order? Since both
Or perhaps you didn't give them names in the right order? The files are
not in fact source-d, but they are concatenated in alphabetical order and
the concatenated file is parsed and evaluated (at load time unless you
used --save: see below).
`alphabetical order' is potentially locale-dependent, although we try to
ensure that the C locale is used, I don't think this is bound to work on
Windows.
> classes are defined in the package and work fine at the command prompt.
> Is it just that this has not been an issue before owing to R's lazy
> evaluation?
> Is there anything I can do about this... maybe by putting something in the
> "./install.R"?
How are you building the package? Are you using --save? If not, that is
probably the solution as it is highly recommended for packages using S4
classes.
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