"Proper" way to use a "hidden" function in an R-package?
I think part of this may be my (possibly flawed) understanding of documentation requirements for CRAN -- if a function is exported to the namespace, does CRAN require documentation of that function? The reason I ask is that I have a lot of these little functions that have no need for documentation (since they are only used internally by a larger, documented function -- no end-user would touch them). If this is flawed understanding, do I just export it to the NAMESPACE and I'm good to go? --j On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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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