[R-pkg-devel] [FWD] [CRAN-pretest-archived] CRAN submission JuliaConnectoR 0.5.0

My case is a little bit different from the use of global variables for data described in the Stackoverflow post.
I import a data base which contains function names of Julia functions from a Julia package.
This is analogous to loading a package in R.
The goal is to make it possible to call Julia functions like R functions.
If you call library(...) in R then the functions contained in the package are also available in the global search path.
In this case it doesn't make sense to use "with".
I am open to suggestions how I can change it to make it better, but the goal is really to be able to write

    juliaUsing("SomeJuliaPackage") # exports myJuliaFunction
    myJuliaFunction()

same as you would write

    library("MyRPackage") # exports myRFunction
    myRFunction()

Best wishes

Stefan
 
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Von: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
An: Ben Bolker [bbolker at gmail.com]
Kopie: Stefan Lenz IMBI [lenz at imbi.uni-freiburg.de], List r-package-devel [r-package-devel at r-project.org]
Datum: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:49:49 -0500
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On 6 April 2020 at 08:38, Ben Bolker wrote:
| Just reply to the CRAN maintainers and explain this situation. It?s
| slightly buried, but the e-mail you received does say:
| 
| > If you are fairly certain the rejection is a false positive, please reply-all 
to this
| > message and explain.

True, but this misses the "Letter of the law" versus the "Spirit of the law".

It might be worth mentioning that use of attach() is seen, to find one poor
analogy, pretty much like use of global variables these days. "Just because
you could does not mean you should".

See e.g. one of the first google hits for 'r do not use attach' here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10067680/why-is-it-not-advisable
-to-use-attach-in-r-and-what-should-i-use-instead

Dirk

Stefan Lenz

Institut f?r Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik
Medizinische Fakult?t / Universit?tsklinikum Freiburg

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