[R-pkg-devel] NAMESPACE issue and grDevices

Hi,

I've been building a package and hit a NAMESPACE issue that took a
while 
to resolve.

My package implements a (new) generic function, and the method for a 
package in the class calls the "smoothScatter" function from the 
"graphics" package. I could build and install the package successfully,

and when I used the generic function, it worked just fine.

However, when I ran "R CMD check --as-cran", it threw an error from
both 
the examples in man pages and a test script. Specifically, the error
was 
"package KernSmooth not available". I eventually worked around this 
problem by changing the DESCRIPTION file to "IMPORT KernSmooth" (even 
though I didn't have to actually import anything in "NAMESPACE").

The underlying issue appears to be that
??? graphics::smoothScatter
calls a non-exported function from "grDevices"
???? grDevices:::.smoothScatterCalcDensity
which in turn calls an explicitly qualified function from "KernSmooth"
??? KernSmooth::bkde2D

To complicate matters
??? graphics IMPORTs grDevices
but
??? grDevices only SUGGESTs KernSmooth.

Since my package already IMPORTed the graphics package and had
??? importFrom("graphics", "smoothScatter")
in the NAMESPACE, I was surprised that I had to track back through the 
code to find this dependency and had to make it explicitly known within

the interface to my package.

Is there something else my package should do? Or should "grDevices" 
actually IMPORT "KernSmooth"?

Best,
? Kevin

Hi,

I've been building a package and hit a NAMESPACE issue that took a while
to resolve.

My package implements a (new) generic function, and the method for a
package in the class calls the "smoothScatter" function from the
"graphics" package. I could build and install the package successfully,
and when I used the generic function, it worked just fine.

However, when I ran "R CMD check --as-cran", it threw an error from both
the examples in man pages and a test script. Specifically, the error was
"package KernSmooth not available". I eventually worked around this
problem by changing the DESCRIPTION file to "IMPORT KernSmooth" (even
though I didn't have to actually import anything in "NAMESPACE").

The underlying issue appears to be that
  ??? graphics::smoothScatter
calls a non-exported function from "grDevices"
  ???? grDevices:::.smoothScatterCalcDensity
which in turn calls an explicitly qualified function from "KernSmooth"
  ??? KernSmooth::bkde2D

To complicate matters
  ??? graphics IMPORTs grDevices
but
  ??? grDevices only SUGGESTs KernSmooth.

Since my package already IMPORTed the graphics package and had
  ??? importFrom("graphics", "smoothScatter")
in the NAMESPACE, I was surprised that I had to track back through the
code to find this dependency and had to make it explicitly known within
the interface to my package.

Is there something else my package should do? Or should "grDevices"
actually IMPORT "KernSmooth"?

Best,
  ? Kevin