It seems that several people in this thread assumes that it is easy or even possible to convince an author of a package to export a given function. This is clearly not always true, partly because as an author you gain additional work by doing this. The downsides to using ::: is really about the possibility of the package breaking or misfunctioning, and I don't really see why this is anyone else's problem.
Best, Kasper On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I would say that you should certainly state it in the man page, and have > > something in the DESCRIPTION file as well. It might be something like > > > > Author: Duncan Murdoch, with code from others (see the man pages) > > > > However, I just looked at rgl (a package I maintain), and I see we > didn't do > > that. We have a separate README file listing other credits. > > The feedback that I've been getting from CRAN maintainers lately is > that you have to include all source code contributors in the authors > field. > > Hadley > > -- > Chief Scientist, RStudio > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
