Re: [Rd] Policy/best practices on renaming functions in packages

2013-06-11 Thread Laurent Gatto
On 10 June 2013 17:23, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > R-developers: > > I'm beginning to work on a manuscript for a set of functions I > developed for a package I have on CRAN (spatial.tools), and I'd like > to rename a function in my package to give a better idea of what it > does prior to manuscrip

[Rd] Policy/best practices on renaming functions in packages

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
R-developers: I'm beginning to work on a manuscript for a set of functions I developed for a package I have on CRAN (spatial.tools), and I'd like to rename a function in my package to give a better idea of what it does prior to manuscript submission -- is there a "safe" way to do a backwards-compa