[Rd] Slightly misleading help page: tools::add_datalist

2018-08-23 Thread Colin Gillespie
Hi, I was looking at the help page for add_datalist() and it states under Details: "R CMD build will call this function to add a data list to packages with 1MB or more of data." This is correct, however, what is omitted from the help page is that add_datalist() will *only* create the datalist fi

[Rd] conflicted: an alternative conflict resolution strategy

2018-08-23 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, I’d love to get your feedback on the conflicted package, which provides an alternative strategy for resolving ambiugous function names (i.e. when multiple packages provide identically named functions). conflicted 0.1.0 is already on CRAN, but I’m currently preparing a revision (

Re: [Rd] conflicted: an alternative conflict resolution strategy

2018-08-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
First, some general comments: This sounds like a useful package. I would guess it has very little impact on runtime efficiency except when attaching a new package; have you checked that? I am not so sure about your heuristics. Can they be disabled, so the user is always forced to make the c