I have not introduced functions with periods in their name before, but
recently I wanted to put a new version of "rbind.fill" in my package
rockchalk. When I do the package check with R-3.5.1, I see a package
build warning:
Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered:
rb
Of course, if you do truly decide to *copy* a function from another
package, make sure everything is licensed appropriately and the authors
given attribution!
-Robert
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 8:09 AM Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Regarding still wanting to copy functions situation, I did this for my
>
Regarding still wanting to copy functions situation, I did this for my
knitrProgressBar PKG, as it makes the progress R6 object from dplyr a first
class citizen of the PKG, and dplyr has a lot of dependencies that I didn't
want to force just to use their pre-existing progress bar.
Robert
On Wed,
To add my two-pence regarding duplication.
I think this is a judgement call.
If the functionality would be precisely the same and for the same situations
then there are some instances where you would still want to duplicate but
generally probably not. An example would be where the function is s