[R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette
Of course, if you do truly decide to *copy* a function from another package, make sure everything is licensed appropriately and the authors given attribution! -Robert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:09 AM Robert M. Flight <rflight79 at gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding still wanting to copy functions situation, I did this for my knitrProgressBar PKG, as it makes the progress R6 object from dplyr a first class citizen of the PKG, and dplyr has a lot of dependencies that I didn't want to force just to use their pre-existing progress bar. Robert On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 7:09 AM Killick, Rebecca <r.killick at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
To add my two-pence regarding duplication.
I think this is a judgement call.
If the functionality would be precisely the same and for the same
situations then there are some instances where you would still want to
duplicate but generally probably not. An example would be where the
function is small and easy to code but depending on the existing package
would bring a large reverse dependency that you don't want to have.
Thanks,
Rebecca
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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 21:11:46 -0400
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Hi all,
I?m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding
package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read
the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and
didn?t
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