It seems like the order in which the packages are specified in the Imports section of the DESCRIPTION file seems to impact the working. The general recommendation is to specify the packages in alphabetical order. My current Imports section looks like this.
Imports:
assertr,
doParallel,
dplyr,
ggfortify,
GGally,
ggplot2,
magrittr,
nnfor,
rlang,
pander,
parallel,
patchwork,
purrr,
R6,
RColorBrewer,
Rfast,
tibble,
tictoc,
tswge,
vars,
forecast
I had to move the forecast import to the end. If I did not do that and specified it alphabetically, it complained about the lattice package not being found.
I am not sure what the issue is but if anyone could shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. Does the order of the packages in the Imports section matter?
Thanks.
Nikhil
Again, I'm not a packager, and, indeed, according to The Man Himself
I recommend putting one package on each line, and keeping them in alphabetical order. That makes it easy to skim.
So, since this is a rule of convenience, rather than a rule of necessity, the idea that comes to mind is to look at forecast
Imports: colorspace, fracdiff, ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1), graphics, lmtest,
magrittr, nnet, parallel, Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), stats, timeDate,
tseries, urca, zoo
Under the assumption that the order of package name space importation matters, it looks like forecast might be comfortable immediately after parallel, since it has no dependencies listed in the following entries.
Other speculations: removing the duplicated packages might work or putting forecast first might let it take care of itself.
I tried moving the forecast package to the beginning but it did not help.
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Well, another hopefully useful fail on my part 
I got similar results when I put the forecast package last or in its alphabetical position.
My only guess is that maybe the ordering issue is caused by packages registering S3 methods with the same name. For example, forecast and ggfortify both have an S3 method name autoplot.arima.
devtools::check() with forecast listed after dplyr in the imports:
Click to see output
> devtools::check()
Updating tswgewrapped documentation
Loading tswgewrapped
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'quantmod':
method from
as.zoo.data.frame zoo
Registered S3 methods overwritten by 'ggfortify':
method from
autoplot.Arima forecast
autoplot.acf forecast
autoplot.ar forecast
autoplot.bats forecast
autoplot.decomposed.ts forecast
autoplot.ets forecast
autoplot.forecast forecast
autoplot.stl forecast
autoplot.ts forecast
fitted.ar forecast
fortify.ts forecast
residuals.ar forecast
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'GGally':
method from
+.gg ggplot2
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'greybox':
method from
print.pcor lava
-- Building ---------------------------------------------------- tswgewrapped --
Setting env vars:
* CFLAGS : -Wall -pedantic
* CXXFLAGS : -Wall -pedantic
* CXX11FLAGS: -Wall -pedantic
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\BLISCJX\Documents\test/DESCRIPTION' (644ms)
- preparing 'tswgewrapped':
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
- checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
- checking for empty or unneeded directories
Removed empty directory 'tswgewrapped/man'
- building 'tswgewrapped_1.8.10.tar.gz'
-- Checking ---------------------------------------------------- tswgewrapped --
Setting env vars:
* _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_: FALSE
* _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ : FALSE
* _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ : FALSE
* NOT_CRAN : true
-- R CMD check ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- using log directory 'C:/Users/BLISCJX/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpwBhd8F/tswgewrapped.Rcheck' (692ms)
- using R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
- using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)
- using session charset: ISO8859-1
- using options '--no-manual --as-cran'
√ checking for file 'tswgewrapped/DESCRIPTION' ...
- this is package 'tswgewrapped' version '1.8.10'
- package encoding: UTF-8
√ checking package namespace information ...
√ checking package dependencies (1.6s)
√ checking if this is a source package ...
√ checking if there is a namespace
√ checking for .dll and .exe files
√ checking for hidden files and directories ...
√ checking for portable file names ...
√ checking serialization versions ...
√ checking whether package 'tswgewrapped' can be installed (4.7s)
√ checking package directory (1.5s)
√ checking for future file timestamps (964ms)
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information (1s)
√ checking top-level files ...
√ checking for left-over files
√ checking index information ...
√ checking package subdirectories (347ms)
√ checking whether the package can be loaded (557ms)
√ checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies (347ms)
√ checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ...
√ checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies (350ms)
√ checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly (455ms)
√ checking loading without being on the library search path (1.2s)
- checking examples ... NONE (478ms)
√ checking for detritus in the temp directory
-- R CMD check results ------------------------------------- tswgewrapped 1.8.10 ----
Duration: 16.1s
0 errors √ | 0 warnings √ | 0 notes √
devtools::check() with forecast listed last in the imports:
Click to see output
> devtools::check()
Updating tswgewrapped documentation
Loading tswgewrapped
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'GGally':
method from
+.gg ggplot2
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'quantmod':
method from
as.zoo.data.frame zoo
Registered S3 methods overwritten by 'forecast':
method from
autoplot.Arima ggfortify
autoplot.acf ggfortify
autoplot.ar ggfortify
autoplot.bats ggfortify
autoplot.decomposed.ts ggfortify
autoplot.ets ggfortify
autoplot.forecast ggfortify
autoplot.stl ggfortify
autoplot.ts ggfortify
fitted.ar ggfortify
fortify.ts ggfortify
residuals.ar ggfortify
Registered S3 method overwritten by 'greybox':
method from
print.pcor lava
-- Building ---------------------------------------------------- tswgewrapped --
Setting env vars:
* CFLAGS : -Wall -pedantic
* CXXFLAGS : -Wall -pedantic
* CXX11FLAGS: -Wall -pedantic
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\BLISCJX\Documents\test/DESCRIPTION' (667ms)
- preparing 'tswgewrapped':
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
- checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
- checking for empty or unneeded directories
Removed empty directory 'tswgewrapped/man'
- building 'tswgewrapped_1.8.10.tar.gz'
-- Checking ---------------------------------------------------- tswgewrapped --
Setting env vars:
* _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_: FALSE
* _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ : FALSE
* _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ : FALSE
* NOT_CRAN : true
-- R CMD check ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- using log directory 'C:/Users/BLISCJX/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpUf57Gk/tswgewrapped.Rcheck' (721ms)
- using R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
- using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit)
- using session charset: ISO8859-1
- using options '--no-manual --as-cran'
√ checking for file 'tswgewrapped/DESCRIPTION' ...
- this is package 'tswgewrapped' version '1.8.10'
- package encoding: UTF-8
√ checking package namespace information ...
√ checking package dependencies (1.3s)
√ checking if this is a source package ...
√ checking if there is a namespace
√ checking for .dll and .exe files
√ checking for hidden files and directories ...
√ checking for portable file names
√ checking serialization versions
√ checking whether package 'tswgewrapped' can be installed (4.6s)
√ checking package directory (2.2s)
√ checking for future file timestamps (388ms)
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information (1s)
√ checking top-level files ...
√ checking for left-over files
√ checking index information ...
√ checking package subdirectories (334ms)
√ checking whether the package can be loaded (550ms)
√ checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies (355ms)
√ checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly (349ms)
√ checking whether the namespace can be loaded with stated dependencies (344ms)
√ checking whether the namespace can be unloaded cleanly (540ms)
√ checking loading without being on the library search path (1.2s)
- checking examples ... NONE (458ms)
√ checking for detritus in the temp directory
-- R CMD check results ------------------------------------- tswgewrapped 1.8.10 ----
Duration: 15.9s
0 errors √ | 0 warnings √ | 0 notes √
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