[R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

[Robert M. Flight]

Regarding still wanting to copy functions situation, I did this for my
knitrProgressBar PKG, as it makes the progress R6 object from dplyr a first
class citizen of the PKG, and dplyr has a lot of dependencies that I didn't
want to force just to use their pre-existing progress bar.

Robert

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 7:09 AM Killick, Rebecca <r.killick using lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:

> To add my two-pence regarding duplication.
>
> I think this is a judgement call.
> If the functionality would be precisely the same and for the same
> situations then there are some instances where you would still want to
> duplicate but generally probably not.  An example would be where the
> function is small and easy to code but depending on the existing package
> would bring a large reverse dependency that you don't want to have.
>
> Thanks,
> Rebecca
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> Hi all,
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> I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding
> package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read
> the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and
> didn’t
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> see anything addressing this.
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> Is this the right place to ask?
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> Kind Regards,
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> Joseph Wood
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