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Subject: Re: [Rd] requireNamespace etiquette
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley () stats ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date: 2015-02-21 5:53:34
Message-ID: 54E81D5E.1060208 () stats ! ox ! ac ! uk
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On 20/02/2015 21:15, RKoenker wrote:
> I'm trying to resolve a problem of Namespaces and probably have misunderstood
> something basic.
> In my quantreg package the function crq() has as its first argument a
> formula that typically contains
> something like this: Surv(y, ...) ~ foo, where Surv is a function from the
> survival package which
> quantreg suggests. When this syntax is encountered in ordinary usage Surv
> is resolved, I believe,
> because near the beginning of the crq code there is the locution:
>
> if(!requireNamespace("survival", quietly = TRUE))
> stop("crq requires survival package to be installed")
>
> However, when R CMD check tries to do one of the crq examples I see:
>
>> f <- crq(Surv(y,d,type = "left") ~ x, method = "Portnoy")
> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : could not find function "Surv"
> Calls: crq ... eval -> model.frame -> model.frame.default -> eval -> eval
> Execution halted
>
> Can someone suggest a fix?
'Writing R Extensions' §1.1.3.1 does. Either use survival::Surv in that
call, or if your code expects only 'Surv', have
Surv <- survival::Surv
somewhere in the environment tree where your formula is evaluated.
>
> Roger
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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