Hello All,
I appreciate all of the feedback. The many examples from personal
experience really help.
My gut feeling of contacting the maintainer was indeed confirmed.
My particular situation is regarding ideas I have for a few packages.
For example, I'm not very happy with how I handled the pack
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
On 2018-09-09 09:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Hi Joseph,
On 8 September 2018 at 21:11, Joseph Wood wrote:
| I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding
| package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read
| the posting guide (https://www.r-
Hi Joseph,
On 8 September 2018 at 21:11, Joseph Wood wrote:
| I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding
| package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read
| the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and didn’t
| see
On 08/09/2018 9:11 PM, Joseph Wood wrote:
Hi all,
I’m a new developer and this is my first post. I have a question regarding
package development with regards to duplication of functionality. I read
the posting guide (https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html) and didn’t
see anything address
