[Rd] import question

[Hadley Wickham]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Bolker <bbolker <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>>
>>   I have been struggling all day to import a particular function/method
>> combination (ranef(), which extracts the random effects from a mixed
>> model fit) from the nlme package into another package ... so far without
>> success.
>>
>
>  Answered my own question, finally.
>
>  Apparently an explicit
>
> export(ranef)

But why do you want to export this method out of your package? (If you
export it, you will need to document it) Can't you rely on nlme being
loaded?

i.e. your test should be

library(nlme)
library(raneftest)
x <- 1
class(x) <- "x"
ranef.x(x)
ranef(x)


Hadley

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