[Rd] undocumented objects in a package

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Sep 23 16:34:34 CEST 2005


Liaw, Andy wrote:

> Dear R-devel,
> 
> I recall that there used to be a mechanism to get around the requirement
> that all objects in a package have associated documentation; i.e., a way to
> specify a list of objects (mostly functions) that are not considered as part
> of the package API.  Is this still available?  I cannot find any mention in
> R-exts.
> 
> I realize that the way to go is to have a name space, and eventually that's
> what I will do, but for now I rather spend the time doing other necessary
> clean-ups first.  
> 
> Any pointer much appreciated!


E.g. just make one simple help page with keyword "internal" with aliases 
for all the functions. You do not need to write exact documentation in 
this case.

Uwe Ligges

> Best,
> Andy
> 
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