[Rd] "Proper" way to use a "hidden" function in an R-package?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13-07-12 5:52 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> R-developers:
>
> I'm working on updating my R package "spatial.tools", and one thing I
> was wondering was the proper way to have hidden functions -- should I
> simply not export them to the namespace and use the ::: operator to
> call them (which is what I currently do)?

Are you calling them from inside the package?  If so, you don't need the 
:::.

If you're not calling them from inside the package, then why not export 
them?  I think you need to explain the context.

Duncan Murdoch

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