You only need ::: from outside the package. Hadley On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> wrote: > Ah, sorry -- I thought if I try to call a "hidden" function that has > not be exported (and, I thought, if it is exported, it needs to be > documented?), I have to call it via ::: ? > > --j > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You only need ::: if you're calling it from another package (and see >> the lengthly recent discussion on that issue). The key distinction is >> whether the function is exported or not: You must document any >> function that you export. You don't have to document any function you >> don't export. >> >> Hadley >> >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> >> wrote: >>> I had a similar question awhile ago. Basically, my understanding is >>> if it is a function, it needs to be documented UNLESS you are calling >>> it via ::: >>> >>> --j >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Sana Wajid <sat3l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Thank you all, I appreciate your responses. Just a quick follow up >>>> question: couple of my functions are "background" or "behind the scenes" >>>> functions. Do these have to be documented in the manual as well? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Geoff Jentry >>>> <geoffjen...@hexdump.org>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Ben Bolker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It may be suboptimal/there may be better ways, but what I would do in >>>>>> your situation would be to save the real twitteR results to a .Rdata file >>>>>> (e.g. put it in inst/vignetteData) and then 'fake' the twitter call: add >>>>>> a >>>>>> non-eval'd but echo'd chunk that appears to run the command, and an >>>>>> eval'd >>>>>> but non-echo'd chunk that loads the results of having run the command. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Interesting, I'll look into doing that. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> -J >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________**________________ >>>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> >>>>> >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD >>> Assistant Professor >>> Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory >>> Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science >>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >>> 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 >>> Urbana, IL 61801 >>> Phone: 217-300-1924 >>> http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ >>> AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Chief Scientist, RStudio >> http://had.co.nz/ > > > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Assistant Professor > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 > Urbana, IL 61801 > Phone: 217-300-1924 > http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007
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