In an effort to streamline our NAMESPACE, we moved from blanket
'import(methods)' to specific importFrom(methods, ) for the
objects we specifically needed.
Doing so broke a downstream package, however, which has this directive:
importFrom(data.table,`.__T__[:base`)
That package stopped
this looks like a relative of the issue I tripped on that is discussed in the
email threads
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2024q1/010531.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-March/083259.html
At issue is the default export of
exportPattern(".")
System generated
To save others a bit of time, the package in question is "do", and
Michael has already posted an issue on their Github page asking why they
made this import: https://github.com/yikeshu0611/do/issues/1 .
And if you remove that import and run R CMD check on "do", it fails with
this error:
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