On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Dario Strbenac
<d.strbe...@garvan.org.au> wrote:
> It turns out what I needed was IRanges in the Imports: field. I assumed that
> require(GenomicRanges) at the top of my function would, as a result of
> loading GenomicRanges, implicitly already know about all the IRanges classes,
> because GenomicRanges itself depends on them.
If GenomicRanges just imports IRanges (rather than using
library()/require()) then the IRanges functions won't be exported to
your package. This is a Good Thing -- you only get the function
redefinitions you ask for, rather than everything in the dependency
tree.
-thomas
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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland
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