Advice on Namespaces
Hi Folks: I'm writing a little package that may not ever hit CRAN or even be distributed beyond a relatively narrow audience at my company. Nevertheless, I have tried to adhere to practices that would work if it were. With that in mind, I have read the Writing R Extensions Manual (and my humble kudos to its writers, as it has successfully guided even an ignoramus like myself ) and Luke Tierney's R Newsletter documentation on Namespaces. However, it is still not clear to me (see above ignoramus comment!) what functions -- and especially which S3 methods whose generics I define in my package -- should be exported and which should not. Perusing other packages also didn't reveal any clear patterns from which I could infer best practice. So may I ask for advice or any references that would provide such guidelines. Feel free to keep replies private if this query in not appropriate for this list. Many thanks. Cheers, Bert
Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm