[R] How to hiding code for a package

[bogdan romocea]

There's something else you could try - since you can't hide the code,
obfuscate it. Hide the real thing in a large pile of useless,
complicated, awfully formatted code that would stop anyone except the
most desperate (including yourself, after a couple of weeks/months)
from trying to understand it. The best solution would be to compile
the code, but R is not there yet.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:35 AM
> To: Gary Wong
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] How to hiding code for a package
> 
> 
> What you ask is impossible.  For a function to be callable it 
> has to be 
> locatable and hence can be printed.
> 
> One possibility is to have a namespace, and something like
> 
> foo <- function(...) foo_internal(...)
> 
> where foo is exported but foo_internal is not.  Then foo_internal is 
> hidden from casual inspection, but it can be listed by cognescenti.
> 
> Why do you want to do this?  Anyhone can read the source code of your 
> package, and any function which can be called can be 
> deparsed, possibly 
> after jumping through a few hoops.
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Gary Wong wrote:
> 
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I have made a package and wish to release it but
> > before then I have a problem. I have a few functions
> > in this package written in R that I wish to hide such
> > that after installation, someone can use say the
> > function >foo(parameters = "") but cannot do >foo.
> > Typing foo should not show the source code or at least
> > not all of it. Is there a way to do this ? I have
> > searched the mailing list and used google, and have
> > found something like "[R] Hiding internal package
> > functions for the doc. pkg-internal.Rd" but this seems
> > different since it seems that the keyword internal
> > just hides the function from showing in the index and
> > hides documentation, not the function itself. Can
> > someone help? Thanks
> 
> -- 
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