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This is similar to this but with a followup question:

I'm preparing my package for submission to CRAN. In one script, it gives the titular error:

Error in as.environment(pos): no item called "package:shapefiles" on the search list

or

Error during wrapup: no item called "package:shapefiles" on the search list

If, like the similar thread linked above, I add

attachNamespace("shapefiles")

Then I no longer get that error, but instead I sometimes get the error or warning:

namespace(shapefiles) was already taken

I believe this happens if the function/script is run more than once. What's so weird about this to me is that

#' @import shapefiles

is in that script's markdown block,

Which means

import(shapefiles)

is in NAMESPACE, and

Imports:
    shapefiles (>= 0.7),

is in DESCRIPTION. I have numerous other package dependencies which are imported the same way (correctly, I believe), and none of them produce this error. I don't see why this is behaving differently therefore, and would like to avoid having either issue before submitting to CRAN. The code that calls this package, in my script, is

shapefiles::read.shapefile(savename)

Script is here, for reference.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Edit: steps to reproduce:

setwd("/folder")
library(devtools)
install_github("SimonDedman/gbm.auto")
library(gbm.auto)
gbm.basemap(bounds = c(-81.7, -80.3, 24.7, 25.9),
            savedir = "/folder")

I've just removed shapefiles:: from the code. The correct output is produced regardless.

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    When exactly do you get this error? Are you compiling and installing your package when testing? Like using `devtools::load_all()` or something else? – MrFlick Jan 24 '21 at 20:17
  • Hi Flick, thanks for the response. I've retried the current code (with attachnamespace commented out) a number of times now and the titular error is no longer happening. No idea what I changed or why this is, but it seems fine now so I guess I'll leave it & hope it doesn't occur again. Cheers! – dez93_2000 Jan 25 '21 at 23:35

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Problem resolved itself after commenting out attachNamespace("shapefiles"). No idea why.

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