R-developers: I'm beginning to work on a manuscript for a set of functions I developed for a package I have on CRAN (spatial.tools), and I'd like to rename a function in my package to give a better idea of what it does prior to manuscript submission -- is there a "safe" way to do a backwards-compatible rename of a function within a CRAN package (so functions that rely on the original name aren't broken)? Is it as simple as:
new_name <- old_name <- function(yadda) { } In general, I'd just leave it as is, but the old name of the function was a reference to an existing function in another package that it no longer has any resemblance to. Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-300-1924 http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel