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

[Diego Hernangómez Herrero]

Hi:

Maybe remove those rda files from .Rbuildignore (as in a previous question)?



Have a nice day!


El El mar, 14 oct 2025 a las 1:04, Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> escribió:

> 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
>
>
> ##################
>
>
> 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
>
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