Ah, sorry -- I thought if I try to call a "hidden" function that has not be exported (and, I thought, if it is exported, it needs to be documented?), I have to call it via ::: ?
--j On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > You only need ::: if you're calling it from another package (and see > the lengthly recent discussion on that issue). The key distinction is > whether the function is exported or not: You must document any > function that you export. You don't have to document any function you > don't export. > > Hadley > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> wrote: >> I had a similar question awhile ago. Basically, my understanding is >> if it is a function, it needs to be documented UNLESS you are calling >> it via ::: >> >> --j >> >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Sana Wajid <sat3l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thank you all, I appreciate your responses. Just a quick follow up >>> question: couple of my functions are "background" or "behind the scenes" >>> functions. Do these have to be documented in the manual as well? >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Geoff Jentry >>> <geoffjen...@hexdump.org>wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Ben Bolker wrote: >>>> >>>>> It may be suboptimal/there may be better ways, but what I would do in >>>>> your situation would be to save the real twitteR results to a .Rdata file >>>>> (e.g. put it in inst/vignetteData) and then 'fake' the twitter call: add a >>>>> non-eval'd but echo'd chunk that appears to run the command, and an eval'd >>>>> but non-echo'd chunk that loads the results of having run the command. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Interesting, I'll look into doing that. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -J >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> >>>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD >> Assistant Professor >> Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory >> Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 >> Urbana, IL 61801 >> Phone: 217-300-1924 >> http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ >> AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Chief Scientist, RStudio > http://had.co.nz/ -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-300-1924 http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
