Dear Duncan, > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:24 PM > To: Benjamin Hofner > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] legitimate use of ::: > > On 26/08/2013 11:20 AM, Benjamin Hofner wrote: > > Dear Duncan, > > > > thank you for the quick reply. > > > > Am 26.08.2013 16:47, schrieb Duncan Murdoch: > > > On 26/08/2013 8:51 AM, Benjamin Hofner wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >>
. . . > > This is a good solution. Do I need to specify the original License > etc? > > And what about a helper function such as stats:::n.knots? This will > not > > appear in the manual of my package. Is it sufficient in this case to > > document the authorship in the source (and perhaps a README as you > > suggested)? > I think you want to give credit in a place where users will see it, not > just in the source. Our README solution isn't good for that, because > most people will never know they have that file. > > Duncan Murdoch I've been giving credit in the Authors@R: field of the DESCRIPTION file and via comments in the source code, but this isn't a good solution since the first is non-specific and the second won't be read by users. Now that this practice will be much more frequent as a consequence of eliminating ::: references, it would be nice to have a standard solution. Maybe using the comment argument to person() in the Authors@R field makes sense; I haven't tried this. Best, John ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel