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3 messages · Bogdan Tanasa, Duncan Murdoch

Bogdan Tanasa
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Dear all,

if I may ask please a very simple question :

what does "." mean in front of  function name : an example below . thank
you very much !

.set_pbmc_color_11<-function() {
  myColors <- c( "dodgerblue2",
                 "green4",
                 "#6A3D9A", # purple
                 "grey",
                 "tan4",
                 "yellow",
                 "#FF7F00", # orange
                 "black",
                 "#FB9A99", # pink
                 "orchid",
                 "red")
Duncan Murdoch
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On 30/01/2020 1:38 p.m., Bogdan Tanasa wrote:
It means that the default ls() won't list the function, you'd need 
ls(all.names = TRUE).  By convention such functions are usually meant 
for internal use, but there are lots of exceptions to that convention.
The same convention is used in Unix-alike file systems.

Duncan Murdoch
Bogdan Tanasa
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appreciate it ! thank you Duncan !

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:18 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote: