[R-pkg-devel] Proper way to document helper functions not accessible by user.

[Boxuan Cui]

Do you have to export them? If not, I think you can just leave out the
@export from the roxygen2 comments.

Here is what I did for my package:
https://github.com/boxuancui/DataExplorer/blob/master/R/helper.r


Best,
Boxuan (Bo)


On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:08 PM Eggleston, Barry <beggleston using rti.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working through my first submission and making good progress with
> the
> > CRAN review system, but now I need to understand the best practice for
> > dealing with helper functions.  I am building a package that only exports
> > 12 functions for direct user access, but it has many helper functions not
> > directly accessible to the user.  In my R code I am using roxygen2 to
> write
> > my help pages.  I have written roxygen2 notes to create help pages for
> > every function, but for all the helper functions I am using the keyword
> > 'internal' so they don't show up in the index of help pages and available
> > functions.  In future releases I may export these functions for direct
> > access, but for now I want to keep them internal.  Within each help page
> of
> > these non-accessible helper functions, I have placed '#None' in the
> > @examples section, since nobody will be able to call the functions
> > directly.  In my submission review I was asked to give examples for these
> > functions, because my package still has the .Rd files f
> >  or these helper functions in the submitted .tar.gz file.  How do I
> proper
> > handle documentation of these helper functions?  Can I remove the
> roxygen2
> > notes that create the .Rd files for these helper functions, so the
> package
> > does not contain .Rd files for them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Barry
> >
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