truncate
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:
Brian I've changed the name of my truncate function. In this case I think problems of conflicts in code could easily be resolved, but I don't understand how conflicts in the documentation would be resolved. However, please do keep in mind that adding things to base is problematic because of name space conflicts. This case was relatively easy for me, but some functions would be much more difficult because of all the implications for documentation and other code using the packages.
A later version of R may well have namespaces. But please do bear in mind that the names of standard C-level functions are likely to be used for the same purpose in R. Little-used packages (and there are over 100 packages by now) cannot be given veto rights.
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