Ok, here's another best practices question - let's say I'm writing a package and I want to use a function name that is already claimed by a function in the base R packages. For the sake of argument, let's pretend this function is for profiling the performance of a function (like Rprof for example), and so an obvious name that comes to mind is profile. This, of course, clashes with the built in profile for "investigating behavior of objective function near the solution represented by fitted."
A little thinking and a quick survey of other packages reveal some possible solutions: * capitalise the function differently (eg. Profile) * use a prefix/suffic (eg. Rprof) * use a thesaurus * use namespaces (and rely on others to use namespaces correctly in their code/packages) What would you suggest? Thanks again, Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
