r63654 has fixed this particular issue, and R-devel will no longer warn against the use of ::: on packages of the same maintainer.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 102 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 22.08.2013 07:45, Yihui Xie wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> So now R CMD check starts to warn against :::, but I believe sometimes >> it is legitimate to use it when developing R packages. For example, I >> have some utils functions that are not exported but I want to share >> them across the packages that I maintain. I do not need to coordinate >> with other authors about these internal functions since I'm the only >> author and I know clearly what I'm doing, and I want to avoid copying >> and pasting the code across packages just to avoid the NOTE in R CMD >> check. What should I do in this case? > > > Nothing. The way you describe above seems to be a reasonable usage, iff you > are the same maintainer who knows what is going on. Other maintainers should > not use one of your not exported (hence non API) functions, of course. > > Uwe Ligges ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
