[R-pkg-devel] CRAN submission spp 1.15.3. NOTE: checking S3 generic/method consistency

Dear Uwe Ligges,

after submitting our package to CRAN we are getting the following NOTE:

===
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE
Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered:
 ?points.within
See section 'Registering S3 methods' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
manual.
===

"points.within" is not a S3 method. It is a function defined in the 
package.
The package is already widely used in the scientific community. 
Therefore renaming the function is not an option as it would cause a lot 
of problems to the users.

But I saw that there are several packages available on CRAN that contain 
NOTES reporting the same issue. For example:
https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang/pROC-00check.html

Do you have an advice on how I can address this problem? Would it be 
possible to still proceed with the submission as we are not getting 
errors nor warnings?

Kind regards,
Carmen

Thanks, we see:


* checking top-level files ... NOTE
Non-standard file/directory found at top level:
?'aclocal.m4'


* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE
Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered:
?points.within
See section 'Registering S3 methods' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
manual.


* checking Rd \usage sections ... NOTE
S3 methods shown with full name in documentation object 'points.within':
?'points.within'

The \usage entries for S3 methods should use the \method markup and not
their full name.
See chapter 'Writing R documentation files' in the 'Writing R
Extensions' manual.


Is there some reference about the method you can add in the 
Description field in the form Authors (year) <doi:.....>?


Please fix and resubmit.

Best,
Uwe Ligges