[R-pkg-devel] Nit-picky vignette questions

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Hi All:

In writing a vignette and referring to a function in another package,  say the function info() in the rerddap package,  it it better to refer to it as the "rerddap function info()" or as "rerddap::info()". This is for the vignette, not what I do internally.

Similarly in a code example in a vignette, if I am using the ggplot2 function ggplot(),  which would preferable  (this is a non-working example just to show the alternative)

   require(ggplot2)
   junk <- ggplot()


or

  junk <- ggplot2::ggplot()

Yes these are nitpicky questions,  but as long as I am doing a vignette, I might as well try to do all of it in a way that is recommended or preferable.

Thanks for any thoughts,

-Roy

PS - Is there something like the Python related program flake8 for R code?   I have both Google and Hadley's style recommendations,  but it is nice  (though tedious and painful) to have a program that points out any inconsistencies from a recommended standard

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