Re: [R-pkg-devel] advice about errorCondition() function in the Rcmdr package

2019-05-15 Thread Fox, John
Dear Uwe, > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:51 AM > To: Fox, John ; R Package Development de...@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] advice about errorCondition() function in t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] advice about errorCondition() function in the Rcmdr package

2019-05-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dear John, I guess Rcmdr::errorCondition() will rarely be called by users (nor base::errorCondition), hence it should be quite safe if other packages import correctly into their namespace and use the version their maintainers import? From that point of view, there are no changes required in

[R-pkg-devel] advice about errorCondition() function in the Rcmdr package

2019-05-14 Thread Fox, John
Dear list members, I noticed that there's a name clash between errorCondition() in the Rcmdr package and the new function by the same name in the base package in R 3.6.0. errorCondition() has been in the Rcmdr package for many years and is used extensively -- literally dozens of times. It's exp