On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Benilton Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > (I tried looking for it, but I don't think it was discussed before... > or maybe I didn't use the correct keywords). > > I have a package (say, pkg1), which uses NAMESPACE. This package > contains a bunch of functions the are used internally, therefore > they're not exported (say, internalFunc1). > > Even though internalFunc1 is not exported, I can access it externally > using pkg1:::internalFunc1 (yes, I do understand this is not supposed > to be done). > > Okay... now I have a second internal function, which starts with a > dot (eg, ".internalFunc2"). > > Is there a way of accessing it without exporting it (or exposing it > by removing the "dot")? ie, something like pkg1:::.internalFunc2 ?
Yes. Starting a name with a dot is merely a convention, and almost everything (including the ::: operator) treats all names the same. You will see lots of examples in the tools package used by R CMD check. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
