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Question about sharing a function in the R package

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Jing Wang ▴ 10

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Last seen 7.7 years ago

Hi,

I have three functions (FA, FB and FC) in the package and all these functions call another function (FD). But I do not want the users to use the function FD and thus I do not want to create the document for the function FD.

Could you please give me some suggestion about how to do that?

Thanks,

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 7.7 years ago by Steve Lianoglou ★ 13k • written 7.7 years ago by Jing Wang ▴ 10

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Steve Lianoglou ★ 13k

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Sometimes the person that needs the documentation the most is the one who wrote the function, and trying to figure out what it's doing 6 months from now.

What's the harm in documenting it? Just don't export it is all ...

ADD COMMENT • link 7.7 years ago Steve Lianoglou ★ 13k

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Further on Steve's answer; if you plan to develop R packages, you must read the "Writing R Extensions" guide at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html. Scrolling down to Section 1.5.1 ("Specifying imports and exports") would have told you everything you needed to know. In addition, this question is better suited to the BioC-devel mailing list. It seems that you have asked the same thing on the mailing list already - in which case, don't double-post the question here.

ADD REPLY • link 7.7 years ago Aaron Lun ★ 28k