Dear r-devel list members, To answer my own question, replacing <<- with explicit assign()s seem to do the trick.
As well, the quickly written function that I posted had a couple of problems (and may well have more, though the version posted below works on the packages I tried); here's an improved version: ----------- snip ----------- findGlobals <- function(filein="00check.log", fileout="globals.R"){ checklog <- readLines(filein) whichline <- which(grepl("checking R code for possible problems .* NOTE", checklog)) checklog <- checklog[-(1:whichline)] whichline <- which(grepl("checking Rd files", checklog)) checklog <- checklog[-(whichline:length(checklog))] globals <- gsub(".*no visible binding for global variable[ ]*", "", checklog) globals <- gsub(".*no visible global function definition for[ ]*", "", globals) globals <- gsub(".*no visible binding for '<<-' assignment to[ ]*", "", globals) globals <- globals[globals != ""] globals <- sub("^ *", "", globals) globals <- sub(" *$", "", globals) whichentries <- which(grepl(":", globals)) if (length(whichentries > 1)) globals <- globals[-whichentries] globals <- gsub(".* ", "", globals) globals <- unique(globals) cmd <- paste("if (getRversion() >= '2.15.1') globalVariables(c(", paste(globals, collapse=", "), "))", sep="") cmd <- strwrap(cmd) writeLines(cmd, fileout) } ----------- snip ----------- Best, John On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:51:55 -0400 "John Fox" <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Dear r-devel list members, > > By placing a call to the new (with R 2.15.1) globalVariables() in the > development version of the Rcmdr package, I've succeeded in reducing the > "notes" produced by R CMD check from dozens to two. But I still get the > following notes, even though '.commander.done' is in the call to > globalVariables(): > > ------------- snip ------------ > > * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE > Commander: no visible binding for '<<-' assignment to '.commander.done' > (C:/Users/John Fox/workspace/Rcmdr/R/commander.R:653) > closeCommander: no visible binding for '<<-' assignment to > '.commander.done' (C:/Users/John > Fox/workspace/Rcmdr/R/file-menu.R:142) > > ------------- snip ------------ > > Is there a way to get rid of these notes (without, of course, removing the > <<- assignments)? > > Finally, here's a rough function that I used to compose the globalVariables() > command from the package check summary; it's probably not bullet-proof, but > perhaps others will find it useful for packages, like the Rcmdr, that > currently generate many notes about global variables: > . . . > > Any help would be appreciated. > > John > > ------------------------------------------------ > John Fox > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel