I've seen this type of error for a while and have really struggled to track it down. I have a package with unit tests that sporadically fail on R CMD check with errors of this type:
--- > test_check("epivizrData") 1. Error: new creates a proper object (@test-creation.R#17) -------------------- attempt to apply non-function 1: expect_equal(mgr$.seqinfo, GenomeInfoDb::Seqinfo()) at testthat/test-creation.R:17 2: compare(object, expected, ...) 3: compare.default(object, expected, ...) 4: all.equal(x, y, ...) 5: all.equal.default(x, y, ...) 6: GenomeInfoDb::Seqinfo() 7: .normargGenome(genome, seqnames) 8: rep.int(ugenome, length(seqnames)) 9: (function (classes, fdef, mtable) { methods <- .findInheritedMethods(classes, fdef, mtable) if (length(methods) == 1L) return(methods[[1L]]) else if (length(methods) == 0L) { cnames <- paste0("\"", vapply(classes, as.character, ""), "\"", collapse = ", ") stop(gettextf("unable to find an inherited method for function %s for signature %s", sQuote(fdef@generic), sQuote(cnames)), domain = NA) } else stop("Internal error in finding inherited methods; didn't return a unique method", domain = NA) })(list("character"), structure(function (x, times) standardGeneric("rep.int"), generic = structure("rep.int", package = "base"), package = "base", group = list(), valueClass = character(0), signature = c("x", "times"), default = structure(function (x, times) .Internal(rep.int(x, times)), target = structure("ANY", class = structure("signature", package = "methods"), .Names = "x", package = "methods"), defined = structure("ANY", class = structure("signature", package = "methods"), .Names = "x", package = "methods"), generic = structure("rep.int", package = "base"), class = structure("derivedDefaultMethod", package = "methods")), skeleton = (structure(function (x, times) .Internal(rep.int(x, times)), target = structure("ANY", class = structure("signature", package = "methods"), .Names = "x", package = "methods"), defined = structure("ANY", class = structure("signature", package = "methods"), .Names = "x", package = "methods"), generic = structure("rep.int", package = "base"), class = structure("derivedDefaultMethod", package = "methods")))(x, times), class = structure("standardGeneric", package = "methods")), <environment>) 10: .findInheritedMethods(classes, fdef, mtable) 11: .inheritedArgsExpression(m@target, m@defined, body(m)) 12: extends(target[[i]], defined[[i]], fullInfo = TRUE) 13: target[[i]] 14: (function (x) x$.self$finalize())(<environment>) --- I do not define any finalize method on classes defined on my package. This stems from a finalizer on a class defined in a package imported by my package (GenomeInfoDb), which I'm guessing is detached from the environment before this finalize function is called. Any ideas on how to avoid this error? Package source here: https://github.com/bioconductor-mirror/epivizrData [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel