On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Felix Schönbrodt <nicebr...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use a function from another package (which is GPL>=3), about 20 > lines of code, in my own package. > I somewhat hesitate to depend on the entire package just for this single > function, but of course I want to credit the original authors. > > What would be the best way to do that? Where should I put that credit? Or > should I proceed completely different?
Why so shy about the name and location of this function? I think I've seen cases like this before, where a package has a handy little function that has use outside the context of the package. In that case I think the best thing is often for that function to be taken out of that package completely, and put in a new package, because it isn't so tightly coupled to the aims of the package. Obviously this is overkill for one function, but its possible there's a few functions, or that they are handy enough to belong somewhere else, such as the plotrix package if its a little plotting function, or in one of Hadley's packages if it has an underscore in the name. Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
