From andy_liaw at merck.com  Wed Oct 13 12:22:08 2004
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Wed Oct 13 12:22:28 2004
Subject: [Rd] RE: [R] debugging non-visible functions
Message-ID: <3A822319EB35174CA3714066D590DCD504AF852A@usrymx25.merck.com>

[I'm diverting this to R-devel, as I believe my questions are more
appropriate for that.]

> From: Prof Brian Ripley
[snip]
> Luke Tierney recommends removing the NAMESPACE file during 
> development of 
> a package if you need frequent access to debug/change its functions.

But isn't that a bit troublesome if there is a shared object to be loaded in
the NAMESPACE file?  If I rename the NAMESPACE file to something else, I
would need to put back library.dynam() in .First.lib(), right?  I thought it
might work to write some code in .First.lib that checks for existence of
NAMESPACE, and call libaray.dynam() conditionally.  Does this sound about
right?

On a slightly different topic:  In R-2.0.0, packages with NAMESPACE no
longer need to use the package= argument in .C/.Fortran.  Does that mean if
I remove those arguments, I should put R version >= 2.0.0 in the Depend
field of the DESCRIPTION?

Best,
Andy

 
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[Rd] RE: [R] debugging non-visible functions
Liaw, Andy