From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Fri Jul 12 18:35:04 2013
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:35:04 +0200
Subject: [Rd] "Proper" way to use a "hidden" function in an R-package?
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On 13-07-12 5:52 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> R-developers:
>
> I'm working on updating my R package "spatial.tools", and one thing I
> was wondering was the proper way to have hidden functions -- should I
> simply not export them to the namespace and use the ::: operator to
> call them (which is what I currently do)?

Are you calling them from inside the package?  If so, you don't need the 
:::.

If you're not calling them from inside the package, then why not export 
them?  I think you need to explain the context.

Duncan Murdoch

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[Rd] "Proper" way to use a "hidden" function in an R-package?
Duncan Murdoch