[Rd] Undocumented functions
Ben Bolker
bbolker at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 14:05:43 CET 2011
Nicola Sturaro Sommacal <mailinglist <at> nicolasturaro.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am building a package. This package will not submitted to CRAN.
>
> I write the help files for the most important functions of my package, I
> cannot write it for all functions. This may sounds strange, but so there!
>
> I know that all user-level functions should be documented, so I have to
> move my undocumented functions to a non-user-level. It's right?
>
> To move my functions to a non-user-level I can write them as hidden
> functions, with a dot before the names. This require a very long check of
> my code to change the call to the function preceding it by a dot. So, this
> is not a real choice.
> There are other way to reach my purpose?
>
Read about name spaces; search for NAMESPACE or "name space" in the
R extensions manual.
Any function that is not exported from a package need not be documented.
Ben Bolker
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