From rh at knut-krueger.de  Tue May 13 18:14:16 2014
From: rh at knut-krueger.de (Knut Krueger)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:14:16 +0200
Subject: [Rd] legitimate use of :::
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Is there another new solution for this issue?
especially I would like to use:

utils:::.win32consoleCompletion
the use of this is suggested in the completion.r file of utils:

## test some typical completion attempts
     library(utils)
testLine <- function(line, cursor = nchar(line))
{
     str(utils:::.win32consoleCompletion(line, cursor))
}

testLine("")


(full quote because of the age of the tread)


Kind regards Knut
Am 22.08.2013 20:57, schrieb Michael Friendly:
> On 8/22/2013 7:45 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 22.08.2013 07:45, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So now R CMD check starts to warn against :::, but I believe sometimes
>>> it is legitimate to use it when developing R packages. For example, I
>>> have some utils functions that are not exported but I want to share
>>> them across the packages that I maintain. I do not need to coordinate
>>> with other authors about these internal functions since I'm the only
>>> author and I know clearly what I'm doing, and I want to avoid copying
>>> and pasting the code across packages just to avoid the NOTE in R CMD
>>> check. What should I do in this case?
>>
>> Nothing. The way you describe above seems to be a reasonable usage, iff
>> you are the same maintainer who knows what is going on. Other
>> maintainers should not use one of your not exported (hence non API)
>> functions, of course.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>
> Related to this is the use of other-package unexported utility functions
> that don't pass Uwe's iff test, but I, as maintainer,
> want to use in my package.
>
> Cases in point:  in heplots, I had used stats:::Pillai, stats:::Wilks,
> stats:::Roy and stats:::LH for calculation in one of my functions.
> Similarly, I had a need to use car:::df.terms, also unexported, but
> don't want to ask John Fox to export it just for my use.  Uwe's
> reply suggests that I should not be using car:::df.terms, however.
>
> To avoid the NOTEs (which often triggers a 'pls fix' upon submission to
> CRAN), I simply copied/pasted these functions to my package, but this
> seems wasteful.
>
> -Michael
>
>



[Rd] legitimate use of :::
Knut Krueger