Understand devtools::check() warning notes

[RayStick]

domain_mapping: no visible binding for global variable ‘Note’
  Undefined global functions or variables:
    Note

When @BatoolMM added at the top:

utils::globalVariables(c("Note"))

the warning stopped

[RayStick]

Running devtools::check() on latest release (1.0.0) gives:

❯ checking for hidden files and directories ... NOTE Found the following hidden files and directories: .all-contributorsrc These were most likely included in error. See section ‘Package structure’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.

❯ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete sentences.

❯ checking top-level files ... NOTE Non-standard files/directories found at top level: ‘CITATION.cff’ ‘CONTRIBUTING.md’ ‘data-raw’

❯ checking package subdirectories ... NOTE Found the following CITATION file in a non-standard place: CITATION.cff Most likely ‘inst/CITATION’ should be used instead.

❯ checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘MetaDataVersion’ compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘MetaDataLastUpdated’ compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘DomainListDesc’ compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘Dataset’ compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘Table’ compare_csv_outputs: no visible binding for global variable ‘DataElement’ domain_mapping: no visible binding for global variable ‘Note’ Undefined global functions or variables: DataElement Dataset DomainListDesc MetaDataLastUpdated MetaDataVersion Note Table

It would be good to understand these better, as it seems I may be declaring/handling variables in R in a sub-optimal way

[RayStick]

as this is not an error or a warning (just a note) I am going to close this for now