Message-ID: <51E03038.5080000@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-07-12T16:35:04Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: "Proper" way to use a "hidden" function in an R-package?
In-Reply-To: <CABG0rfuVhzEB1s-287dAfCHMDcsWL9dLDAfaLennbQNMYOjNEw@mail.gmail.com>
On 13-07-12 5:52 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> R-developers:
>
> I'm working on updating my R package "spatial.tools", and one thing I
> was wondering was the proper way to have hidden functions -- should I
> simply not export them to the namespace and use the ::: operator to
> call them (which is what I currently do)?
Are you calling them from inside the package? If so, you don't need the
:::.
If you're not calling them from inside the package, then why not export
them? I think you need to explain the context.
Duncan Murdoch
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