[Rd] legitimate use of :::

[Yihui Xie]

r63654 has fixed this particular issue, and R-devel will no longer
warn against the use of ::: on packages of the same maintainer.

Regards,
Yihui
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Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 22.08.2013 07:45, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So now R CMD check starts to warn against :::, but I believe sometimes
>> it is legitimate to use it when developing R packages. For example, I
>> have some utils functions that are not exported but I want to share
>> them across the packages that I maintain. I do not need to coordinate
>> with other authors about these internal functions since I'm the only
>> author and I know clearly what I'm doing, and I want to avoid copying
>> and pasting the code across packages just to avoid the NOTE in R CMD
>> check. What should I do in this case?
>
>
> Nothing. The way you describe above seems to be a reasonable usage, iff you
> are the same maintainer who knows what is going on. Other maintainers should
> not use one of your not exported (hence non API) functions, of course.
>
> Uwe Ligges