[R-pkg-devel] Advice on elegant way to alias function name

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.09.2022 16:48, J C Nash wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've a package where it has been suggested that one of the functions -- 
> call
> it "myfn()" -- should be called something else, say "thefn()". Of 
> course, I'll
> need to keep the old name around for a while.
> 
> Web search has suggested simple assignment of
> 
>      thefn <- myfn
> 
> but I cannot seem to get this to work with R CMD check when I put this 
> in a .R
> file in the code and put alias and usage stanzas in documentation. I get 
> alias
> and missing argument type errors. I've tried a number of variations on 
> this theme
> without appreciable success.

Can you make the package available? It should work.

Best,
Uwe

> A workaround is to copy the entire function with Roxygen2 documentation and
> name change, but this seems inelegant.
> 
> Is there a better way e.g., using something like onLoad ? Pointers to 
> working
> examples in CRAN or Github packages would be welcome.
> 
> Best, JN
> 
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