[R-pkg-devel] "Undefined global functions or variables" locally but NOT on GitHub

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


GitHub actions has seen no problems with:


https://github.com/sbgraves237/MaddisonData


However, R CMD check on my local computer cannot find any of the 
datasets defined in this package. I think I have the current version of 
everything including upgrading macOS to 26.0.1, upgrading RStudio and 
running "update.packages()". I've studied Wickham and Bryan, R Packages, 
without finding how to fix this problem. I've compared the roxygen2 code 
in this package with data documentation in other tidyverse packages 
without being able to resolve this issue. Below please find 
sessionInfo() and 00check.log from "R CMD check MaddisonData_0.0.1.tar.gz".


Suggestions? Thanks, Spencer Graves


p.s. I was having the same problem with 
"github.com/sbgraves237/SS4Maddison", so I created the MaddisonData 
project from scratch and copied only what I needed from SS4Maddison. The 
problem followed me.


 > sessionInfo()
R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Tahoe 26.0.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS: 
/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 

LAPACK: 
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; 
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
[6] methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] devtools_2.4.6 usethis_3.2.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] R6_2.6.1           fastmap_1.2.0
  [3] magrittr_2.0.4     cachem_1.1.0
  [5] remotes_2.5.0.9000 glue_1.8.0
  [7] memoise_2.0.1      lifecycle_1.0.4
  [9] cli_3.6.5          sessioninfo_1.2.3
[11] vctrs_0.6.5        compiler_4.5.1
[13] pkgload_1.4.1      tools_4.5.1
[15] purrr_1.1.0        rstudioapi_0.17.1
[17] pkgbuild_1.4.8     ellipsis_0.3.2
[19] rlang_1.1.6        fs_1.6.6


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00check.log


* using log directory 
‘/Users/sg/Documents/current/R/MaddisonData/MaddisonData.Rcheck’
* using R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
* using platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
* R was compiled by
     Apple clang version 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.6)
     GNU Fortran (GCC) 14.2.0
* running under: macOS Tahoe 26.0.1
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file ‘MaddisonData/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘MaddisonData’ version ‘0.0.1’
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
* checking whether package ‘MaddisonData’ can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... INFO
   installed size is  5.1Mb
   sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
     extdata   4.7Mb
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking ‘build’ directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking top-level files ... OK
* checking for left-over files ... OK
* checking index information ... OK
* checking package subdirectories ... OK
* checking code files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking R files for syntax errors ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
* checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
* checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies 
... OK
* checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
* checking loading without being on the library search path ... OK
* checking dependencies in R code ... OK
* checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK
* checking replacement functions ... OK
* checking foreign function calls ... OK
* checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
getMaddisonSources: no visible binding for global variable
   ‘MaddisonSources’
getMaddisonSources: no visible binding for global variable
   ‘MaddisonYears’
logMaddison: no visible binding for global variable ‘MaddisonData’
logMaddison: no visible binding for global variable ‘MaddisonCountries’
Undefined global functions or variables:
   MaddisonCountries MaddisonData MaddisonSources MaddisonYears
* checking Rd files ... OK
* checking Rd metadata ... OK
* checking Rd cross-references ... OK
* checking for missing documentation entries ... OK
* checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK
* checking Rd \usage sections ... OK
* checking Rd contents ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in examples ... OK
* checking contents of ‘data’ directory ... OK
* checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
* checking LazyData ... OK
* checking data for ASCII and uncompressed saves ... OK
* checking installed files from ‘inst/doc’ ... OK
* checking files in ‘vignettes’ ... OK
* checking examples ... OK
* checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes ... OK
* checking package vignettes ... OK
* checking re-building of vignette outputs ... OK
* checking PDF version of manual ... OK
* DONE
Status: 1 NOTE