On 11-09-06 10:26 AM, Jannis wrote:
Dear list members,


i have build a package which contains a collection of my frequently used 
functions. To keep the code organized I have broken down some rather extensive 
and long functions into individual steps and bundled these steps in 
sub-functions that are called inside the main function.

To keep an overview over which sub-function belongs to which main function I saved 
all the respective sub-functions to the same *.R file as their main-function and gave 
them names beginning with . to somehow hide the sub-functions. The result would be 
one *.R file in<package>/R for each 'main-function' containing something like:


mainfunction<- function() {
   .subfunction1()
   .subfunction2()
   #...
}

.subfunction1()<- function() {
  #do some stuff
}
.subfunction2()<- function() {
  #do some more stuff
}


According to the way I understood the "Writing R Extensions" Manual I expected this 
to work. When I load the package, however, I get the error message that the sub-functions could 
not be found. Manually sourcing all files in the<package>/R directory however yields the 
expected functionality.

In what way am I mistaken here? Any ideas?

Those definitions of .subfunction1 and .subfunction2 are not syntactically correct: extra parens. If that's just a typo in the message, then you'll have to show us real code. What you describe should work.

Duncan Murdoch

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