On Jun 15, 2011, at 16:22 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > So your example creates an object 'x' in the package or name space. Which is > perfectly legal, but maybe not intentional. For example, R's base package > does > ...
Yes. Nothing illegal about it, but might be worth noticing that if LazyLoading is used, then the object will be computed only once, while building the package. So "today <- date()" or "calibrate <- system.time(for(i in 1:1e6)...))" or is a bad idea unless you really want the value at build time on the build computer. Having results depending on whether or not LazyLoading is being used is probably not a good idea in any case. To have things happen on load, use .onLoad and relatives. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
