On 28/03/2017 8:53 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
I'm thinking of adding a new "cmatrix" function/method to the survival package
but before
I do I'd like to find out if any other packages already use this function name.
The
obvious method is to look at the NAMESPACE file for each package in CRAN and
read the
export list.
This is the kind of task for which someone, somewhere will have written
routines. I just
don't know who or where.
Any hints?
Google is pretty good at finding documentation. Since CRAN won't let
you publish a package that exports a function without documenting it,
that's probably good enough (though it will lead to a few false
positives, e.g. multcomp::simtest has an argument named cmatrix).
I don't see a cmatrix function in a Google search.
I happen to have a copy of all CRAN packages on my system, and searching
the NAMESPACE files finds no cmatrix, but it does find ibd::Cmatrix. So
I think you're safe.
Duncan Murdoch
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