[Rd] NAMESPACES for data only packages

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Michael,

You are correct that data does not *have* to be exported.  For
example, here is the contents of NAMESPACE for the datasets package
from a recent devel version:

# This package exports nothing (it uses lazydata)
# exportPattern(".")

Cheers,

Josh

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
> the NEWS file for R-devel says
>
>  *
>
>    Even data-only packages without *R* code need a namespace and so may
>    need to be installed under *R* 2.14.0 or later.
>
>
> but what should this contain?  Can it simply be an empty NAMESPACE
> file?  I assume that data does not have to
> be exported.
>
> -Michael
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