[Roxygen-devel] @import tag modifies NAMESPACE but not DESCRIPTION

[Manuel J. A. Eugster]

Hi Vinh,

> Any thoughts on this from the folks that use the @import tag?  Is my
> assumption that the DESCRIPTION file should be updated wrong?  Let me
> know, thanks!

the DESCRIPTION file must be written by hand; @import does only add
an import directive to the NAMESPACE file.


Manuel.



> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Vinh Nguyen<vqnguyen at uci.edu>  wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> When I ran R CMD check on my package, I get a warning saying I should
>> do something like importFrom("methods", "show") since I was using the
>> show generic function.
>>
>> I placed
>> ##' @import methods
>> into the package documentation and it generated "import(methods)" in
>> the NAMESPACE file.  However, I get an error with R CMD check:
>> * checking package name space information ... OK
>> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR
>> Namespace dependencies not required:
>>   methods
>>
>> I'm guessing that we should have "Imports: methods" in the DESCRIPTION
>> file as well.  Should roxygen be doing this or am I missing something?
>>   I'm using use.Rd2=TRUE.  Thanks.
>>
>> Vinh
>> --
>> Vinh Nguyen
>> Department of Statistics
>> Donald Bren School of ICS
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