From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Apr  6 21:18:14 2012
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:18:14 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R CMD check returns NOTE about package data set as global
 variable
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On 06/04/2012 19:46, Brad McNeney wrote:
> I'm developing a package that comes with a data set called RutgersMapB36. One of the package's functions requires this data frame. A toy example is:
>
> test<-function() {
>    data(RutgersMapB36)
>    return(RutgersMapB36[,1])
> }
>
>
> R CMD check returns a NOTE:
>
> test: no visible binding for global variable 'RutgersMapB36'
>
> Is there any way to avoid this NOTE?

Use data("RutgersMapB36"), which many think is good practice in code.


>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
> ---
> Brad McNeney
> Statistics and Actuarial Science
> Simon Fraser University
>
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[Rd] R CMD check returns NOTE about package data set as global variable
Prof Brian Ripley