[datatable-help] Using := in .onLoad

Juan Manuel Truppia jmtruppia at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 15:01:04 CET 2015


Yes, I use hadley tools regularly, and it's hadley himself who recommends
not to import the whole namespace to avoid polluting (check his R packages
book).

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 10:53 Mick Cooney <mickcooney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Juan,
>
> That isn't really a workaround, it is the way you are supposed to
> import things these days. The functionality for NAMESPACE files etc
> changed a while ago with one of the version releases of R (I think it
> was something like 2.13, but don't quote me). If you import it via a
> namespace it should work fine.
>
> BTW, if you are developing a package, I highly recommend using Hadley
> Wickham's devtools package. Combine that with roxygen2 for
> documentation, and a huge amount of the bookkeeping and maintenance of
> packages is taken care of for you.
>
>
> --
> Mick Cooney
> mickcooney at gmail.com
>
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