[R] Hiding information about functions in newly developed packages

[Tudor Bodea]

Dear UseRs:

I intend to write a package to handle the basic operations a revenue management
analyst has to deal with on a regular basis (e.g., demand untruncation,
capacity allocation, pricing decisions, etc.).  Following the directions posted
by Peter Rossi (Making R Packages under Windows: A Tutorial, January 2006) I
was able to build an interim package that currently consists of one simple
function (e.g., fun).  After the package is loaded and the function is invoked
without any parameters (e.g., > fun) the body of the function is displayed on
the screen underneath the function call.  Since the user does not need to know
the internal structure of the function, I am wondering if there is a way to
hide this information. I have looked into some of the material that Paul
Murrell and John Chambers among others posted but I have not really understood
how to incorporate this information into the package building process.  If you
already experienced this issue and have some useful suggestions, I would really
appreciate your taking the time to share them with me.  For this project, I am
using R2.7.1 on a Windows XP machine.

Thank you.

Tudor



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Tudor Dan Bodea
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Web: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg757i