Re: [R-pkg-devel] Use of `:::` in a package for code run in a parallel cluster

2020-09-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 15 September 2020 at 10:27, Cesko Voeten wrote: | the language provides an obvious way to do this, why write a semantic kludge As already said, Occam's Razor give the answer: keep it simple(r) and don't write the kludge. Stick it all into a package, load the package on every node and use

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Use of `:::` in a package for code run in a parallel cluster

2020-09-15 Thread Cesko Voeten
Henrik, I completely agree with everything you wrote, but note that the issue at hand is using `:::' in *the same* package, for example when a package needs to access its own internal functions from an outside context, where running on a cluster node set up by the package is one thing I can