Dear Uwe, > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:51 AM > To: Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca>; R Package Development <r-package- > de...@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] advice about errorCondition() function in the Rcmdr > package > > Dear John, > > I guess Rcmdr::errorCondition() will rarely be called by users
I think that here rarely == never! > (nor > base::errorCondition), hence it should be quite safe if other packages import > correctly into their namespace and use the version their maintainers import? Typically an Rcmdr plug-in package will import(Rcmdr) because it will use many functions exported by the Rcmdr package. > > From that point of view, there are no changes required in Rcmdr. Ok -- thanks -- that makes sense. Best, John > > Best, > Uwe > > > > On 14.05.2019 16:28, Fox, John wrote: > > Dear list members, > > > > I noticed that there's a name clash between errorCondition() in the Rcmdr > package and the new function by the same name in the base package in R > 3.6.0. errorCondition() has been in the Rcmdr package for many years and is > used extensively -- literally dozens of times. It's exported because it's also > used in Rcmdr plug-in packages. The function checks for errors, prints an > error > message, cleans up after the error, and restarts a dialog. > > > > For the time-being, I've renamed the function as ErrorCondition() (with an > uppercase "E") in the development version of the Rcmdr package, to be > released in late summer, but have retained and deprecated errorCondition() > because I expect that removing it will break most or even all Rcmdr plug-in > packages, but I also suspect that masking base::errorCondition() can be > problematic. > > > > Can anyone suggest the best way to proceed? > > > > Best, > > John > > > > -------------------------------------- > > John Fox, Professor Emeritus > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > Web: socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
