[Rd] Minimum requirements for package submission

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Ah, sorry -- I thought if I try to call a "hidden" function that has
not be exported (and, I thought, if it is exported, it needs to be
documented?), I have to call it via ::: ?

--j

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> You only need ::: if you're calling it from another package (and see
> the lengthly recent discussion on that issue).  The key distinction is
> whether the function is exported or not: You must document any
> function that you export. You don't have to document any function you
> don't export.
>
> Hadley
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> I had a similar question awhile ago.  Basically, my understanding is
>> if it is a function, it needs to be documented UNLESS you are calling
>> it via :::
>>
>> --j
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Sana Wajid <sat3lite at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you all, I appreciate your responses. Just a quick follow up
>>> question: couple of my functions are "background" or "behind the scenes"
>>> functions. Do these have to be documented in the manual as well?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Geoff Jentry <geoffjentry at hexdump.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  It may be suboptimal/there may be better ways, but what I would do in
>>>>> your situation would be to save the real twitteR results to a .Rdata file
>>>>> (e.g. put it in inst/vignetteData) and then 'fake' the twitter call: add a
>>>>> non-eval'd but echo'd chunk that appears to run the command, and an eval'd
>>>>> but non-echo'd chunk that loads the results of having run the command.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Interesting, I'll look into doing that.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -J
>>>>
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