Can we clarify:
As the NEWS says, to install a data-only package under 2.14.0 you need
a namespace. And if you do not give one installation will create one.
However, you can use an already-installed data-only package without a
namespace under 2.14.x, but not under R-devel. This is to allow a
transition (e.g. many of the BioC 2.9 binary data-only packages did
not have a namespace at the time).
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Joshua Wiley wrote:
Hi Michael,
You are correct that data does not *have* to be exported. For
example, here is the contents of NAMESPACE for the datasets package
from a recent devel version:
# This package exports nothing (it uses lazydata)
# exportPattern(.)
Cheers,
Josh
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Michael Friendly frien...@yorku.ca wrote:
the NEWS file for R-devel says
*
Even data-only packages without *R* code need a namespace and so may
need to be installed under *R* 2.14.0 or later.
but what should this contain? Can it simply be an empty NAMESPACE
file? I assume that data does not have to
be exported.
-Michael
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