[R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette

[Robert M. Flight]

Of course, if you do truly decide to *copy* a function from another
package, make sure everything is licensed appropriately and the authors
given attribution!

-Robert

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:09 AM Robert M. Flight <rflight79 using gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 21:11:46 -0400
>> From: Joseph Wood <jwood000 using gmail.com>
>> To: r-package-devel using r-project.org
>> Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Package Etiquette
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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
>> R: Posting Guide: How to ask good questions that prompt ...<
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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,
>>
>> Joseph Wood
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