[Rd] Best way to implement optional functions?

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Roxygen2 documents imported and re-exported functions. See
http://www.r-bloggers.com/roxygen2-5-0-0/

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
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2015-11-16 22:02 GMT+01:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:

> On 16/11/2015 4:00 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
>
>> On 22 October 2015 at 22:55, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning on adding some new WebGL functionality to the rgl package,
>>> but
>>> it will pull in a very large number of dependencies. Since many people
>>> won't
>>> need it, I'd like to make the new parts optional.
>>>
>>
>> Can people suggest other packages that solve this kind of problem in a
>>> good
>>> way?
>>>
>>
>> I had the same issue with the assertive package: it was getting big,
>> and not everyone wanted all the functionality.
>>
>> The solution was to create several smaller packages with individual
>> components of functionality, for example assertive.base contains the
>> bare-minimum functionality; assertive.numbers contains functionality
>> related to numbers, etc.
>>
>> Then the assertive package imports all the functions from the
>> component packages and reexports them.
>>
>> That way people who want a small footprint (mostly other package
>> developers) can specify only what they need, and people who don't care
>> (mostly end users) can just type library(assertive) and get access to
>> everything.
>>
>>
> When you import and re-export functions, do they need to be documented in
> both places?  I forget if we have a simple way to say "this function is
> documented in that package", to avoid duplication.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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