On 26/08/2013 1:57 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
It seems that several people in this thread assumes that it is easy or
even possible to convince an author of a package to export a given
function. This is clearly not always true, partly because as an
author you gain additional work by doing this. The downsides to using
::: is really about the possibility of the package breaking or
misfunctioning, and I don't really see why this is anyone else's problem.
As long as you keep the package to yourself, it's nobody's problem but
yours. If you want CRAN to distribute it, then it harms their
reputation if it doesn't meet their standards.
Duncan Murdoch
Best,
Kasper
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com
<mailto:h.wick...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I would say that you should certainly state it in the man page,
and have
> something in the DESCRIPTION file as well. It might be
something like
>
> Author: Duncan Murdoch, with code from others (see the man pages)
>
> However, I just looked at rgl (a package I maintain), and I see
we didn't do
> that. We have a separate README file listing other credits.
The feedback that I've been getting from CRAN maintainers lately is
that you have to include all source code contributors in the authors
field.
Hadley
--
Chief Scientist, RStudio
http://had.co.nz/
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