Thanks for your answer.
I guess writing a regular expression that says "export everything that does not start with a dot but do not export foo and bar" would be not trivial to write (at least not for me).
The NAMESPACE created by package.skeleton contain a single line : exportPattern("^[[:alpha:]]+") I guess that it is what you just say... Christophe ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.