Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about R functions

2017-03-31 Thread Sean Davis
And note the existence of the "Internal" keyword for documentation: http://www.hep.by/gnu/r-patched/r-exts/R-exts_50.html On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Wolfgang Huber wrote: > > Thanks Juan; the .point used to be a way to do this, but since the > introduction of

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about R functions

2017-03-31 Thread Wolfgang Huber
Thanks Juan; the .point used to be a way to do this, but since the introduction of namespaces to R, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for private functions. See e.g. .Hub in the AnnotationHub package, or the .Call function in base. See

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about R functions

2017-03-30 Thread Nathan Sheffield
HI Jing, You should export FA FB and FC, but don't export FD. If using roxygen2 for documentation you use "#' @export" on the ones to export, and just don't document FD and it won't be exported by default. Hope that helps, -Nathan On 03/30/2017 04:02 PM, Jing Wang wrote: Hi, I have

Re: [Bioc-devel] Question about R functions

2017-03-30 Thread Juan David Henao Sanchez
Hi Wang You can create internal functions calling them as ".function", the point is necessary to declare an internal function. Additionally, you can put all your internal functions in the same R file and is not necessary create the documentation for this functions. Best regards. Juan D. Henao

[Bioc-devel] Question about R functions

2017-03-30 Thread Jing Wang
Hi, I have three functions (FA,FB,FC) in the package and all these functions need to call another function (FD). But I do not want other users to use the function FD and thus I do not want to create the document for FD in the R package. Could you please give me some suggestion how to do