On 13/07/13 08:57, Kay Cichini wrote:
just found it myself:

in '.GADM' the leading period designates an internal function - the source
can be viewed with:
getAnywhere('.GADM')

I think that's a bit misleading. In general, the names of functions (or other objects) which are "internal" to a package need *not* begin with a full stop. That is just a convention that the author of the "dismo" package is using. What makes an object "internal" really is
not being exported in the NAMESPACE of the package.

The general impact of beginning the name of an object with a full stop is to make that object "invisible" to ls(). I.e. if you do an ls() of the environment in which that object
"lives" then you will *not* see the name of that object unless you do

    ls(.....,all.names=TRUE)

See help(ls).

    cheers,

        Rolf Turner

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