[R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

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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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
R: Posting Guide: How to ask good questions that prompt ...<

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
From: Joseph Wood <jwood000 at gmail.com>
To: r-package-devel at r-project.org
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette
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        <CAKDcrSjmmt_VsZk=
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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
R: Posting Guide: How to ask good questions that prompt ...<