From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Dec 29 17:15:22 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed Dec 29 17:15:26 2004
Subject: [Rd] help with Rcmd check
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Does your package load cleanly under R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL?
I suspect it does not load at all because your shared object does not, but

env R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL R
> library(excelpoi)

will tell you if not.

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Whit Armstrong wrote:

> I've been working on a package that requires a shared library to be loaded.
> I have used the NAMESPACE file to load the library according to:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Load%20hooks
> <http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Load%20hooks>
>
> my shared library is "excelpoi.so" hence I have added "useDynLib(excelpoi)"
> to my NAMESPACE file.
>
> Prior to this change, my package was passing Rcmd check with no errors or
> warnings.  After this change, I get 5 warnings:
>
> whita$grep 'WARN' /home/whita/dvl/excelpoi.Rcheck/00check.log
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING
> * checking replacement functions ... WARNING
> * checking foreign function calls ... WARNING
> * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING
> * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... WARNING
> whita$
>
> Can anyone suggest a fix to those warnings.  My package only has one
> function in it which has nothing to do with replacement and has no S3
> methods.  Here it is (from file excelpoi/R/excelpoi.R):
>
> write.xls <- function(x,filename,sheetName,writeColNms=T,writeRowNms=T) {
>  if(missing(sheetName) && typeof(x)=="list") sheetName <- NULL
>
> .Call("R2xls",x,filename,sheetName,writeColNms,writeRowNms,PACKAGE="excelpoi
> ")
> }

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[Rd] help with Rcmd check
Prof Brian Ripley