[Rd] Minimum requirements for package submission

[Hadley Wickham]

You only need ::: from outside the package.
Hadley

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 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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