Message-ID: <20722.52551.510334.990311@max.nulle.part>
Date: 2013-01-13T15:05:43Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Incorporating single functions from other packages: rules and regulations?
In-Reply-To: <kctqel$eoh$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 13 January 2013 at 11:16, Johannes Graumann wrote:
| In a little pkg I'm developing I am in need of the functionality provided by
| plotrix::listDepth.
|
| I am loath of having the depend on and import the whole package just for
| that purpose.
Step back and realize that your total R installation (including all packages)
is already much bigger than the single package. And derives value from all
those packages.
So I would use importForm(plotrix, listDepth) in my package's NAMESPACE, and
add the Imports: in the DESCRIPTION.
IMHO that is the right way to do it rather than creating _stale_ and (even
worse) _disconnected_ copies which will never receive updates or fixes from
the _original author_ of that code.
Dirk
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