[R-pkg-devel] Acknowledging small functions from another package

Hadley Wickham h@w|ckh@m @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Thu May 4 15:19:52 CEST 2023


IMO those functions are so small that you don't need to call them out
in your DESCRIPTION. Just note in a nearby comment where they came
from.

Hadley

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 3:21 AM David Hugh-Jones
<davidhughjones using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of my packages copy-pasted some small functions (stuff like `%||%` for
> is.null) from ggplot2. (Both packages are MIT-licensed.)
>
> What is an appropriate way to acknowledge this in the DESCRIPTION Author:
> or Authors using R section? (Note that the list of ggplot2 authors is long and
> changing.)
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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