[Rcpp-devel] Question regarding new pacakge registration requirements

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 March 2017 at 15:35, Tim Keitt wrote:
| 
| On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
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|     Please accomodate the latter and the spirit of the law,
| 
| But if you don't intend to export functions to others, then is it correct to
| not register them? Or is there a reason for to register anyway? That was my
| point of confusion.

Nope -- please re-read the February post by Brian Ripley which my blog post
also references. Plenty of very good reason to register.  (For exporting to
other package you also need to provide a header.)
 
| "Easy" is quite relative to the amount of time you have to commit. Docker/
| rocker/etc/etc/ is not a quick and easy solution. Will Rcpp do this for us in
| the future? (Please!)

The function creating the src/init.c file was already written by Brian Ripley
and Kurt Hornik.

Dirk

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