On Oct 2, 2012, at 13:35 , Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> What is the special meaning for the method name start with a dot? >> >> It means nothing in particular, except that such objects don't show up in >> ls() by default. The _intention_ is usually that the function is only to be >> used internally and not for end-user use. > > But these days, if you're writing a package, you're better off using > namespaces.
Sure, but that doesn't keep package writers from using that kind of naming convention for non-exported objects. (Notice that this started as a question about reading 3rd party source codes.) -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
