search for: neardata

I recently had a long argument wrt the survival package, namely that the following code didn't do what they expected, and so they reported it as a bug ? survival::coxph( survival::Surv(time, status) ~ age + sex + survival::strata(inst), data=lung) a. The Google R style guide? recommends that one put :: everywhere b. This breaks the recognition of cluster as a "special" in the

...that generate an error if you call them. I did that in the much less widely used "tables" package, e.g. Heading() has special interpretation, and the Heading function is defined as Heading <- function(name = NULL, override = TRUE, character.only = FALSE, nearData = TRUE) stop("This is a pseudo-function, not meant to be called.") However, survival has far more users than tables does, so changing the name of your special functions or the corresponding regular functions could be a huge headache. Perhaps there's a way to set a flag before...