[Rd] legitimate use of :::

[Hadley Wickham]

> To avoid the NOTEs (which often triggers a 'pls fix' upon submission to
> CRAN), I simply copied/pasted these functions to my package, but this seems
> wasteful.

Wasteful of disk space, but disk space is cheap. It's less wasteful of
your time, if the referenced code breaks in an unexpected time.  Your
time is much more valuable than disk space.

A gigabyte of disk space costs about $0.10, so even if you value your
time at a very conservative rate of $100 / hour, you should only spend
an hour of your time reducing package size if it saves at least 1 TB
of disk space. That's a lot of copies of a function!

Hadley

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