On 8/22/05, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
profile is a generic so if your function has the same purpose but for a different class you can just create a new method. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
