Thanks Hadley, Luke, Martin, and Bill. Bill captured the essence of my reasons for needing an unexported function. Other reasons include occasional overrides of dispatching rules, and providing parallel versions of some functions that exist in other packages to make them easier to use in some sense. I could ask the package creator to export those functions but it would not make sense to him to do so.
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