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http://billyam.com || http://use-r.com || http://shinyserver.com (BETA) SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Oracle SQL Expert(11g) On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Thierry Onkelinx <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > I would consider a third option: suggest the changes to the package > authors. The authors might include your modifications to the original > package if they feel that it would improve their package. > > Otherwise go for option 2. Option 1 will be harder to maintain if you want > benefit from the updates on the packages A, B, C, D, E. > > Best regards, > > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and > Forest > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > Kliniekstraat 25 > 1070 Anderlecht > Belgium > > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > > 2015-03-19 8:56 GMT+01:00 jpm miao <miao...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> Given that I frequently use A, B, C, D, E packages. >> In each of the 5 packages, I intend to modify one of the functions. >> Two ways: >> >> 1st: Modify A, B, C, D, E to A', B', C', D', E' >> Then I will use library(A') ..... library(E') instead of A, B, C, D, E. >> or Just keep the names A, B, C, D, E but modify the content >> >> 2nd: create a package F and add the five functions to the F package. For >> each of the 5 functions, a line "library(A)"... or "library(E)" is >> required. >> >> Then I will need "library(F)" when I create a new program. >> >> Which is a better way in terms of time consumption and code portability? >> If I move the codes to a new computer, which way will be easier? >> >> Any suggestion? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Miao >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
