do not show function help document in building R package by roxygen2

Question

I am using devtools to build R package, and there are some functions that are NOT designed to be visible to end-users. However, since these functions involve calling C codes by .Call, so that I have to write @useDynLib above the function for automatic generation of .Rd files. In that way, when I build the package, even I did NOT include the @export for those functions, they nonetheless appear in the help document... Is there a way to suppress those functions even if they have been documented? Thanks!

Answer 1

According to Hadley's comments, use @keywords internal will make the function invisible to end-users. Details can be found here in the wiki pages of devtools.

Answer 2

The wiki linked in the accepted answer no longer discusses @keywords internal (as of April 2016). In case it's helpful for someone to see an example:

# multiplyBy3
#' This is an example of an internal function called \code{multiplyBy3()}
#'
#' Sometimes you want internal functions as part of an R Package built with 
#' RStudio and roxygen2, but you don't want .Rd files created for them
#' or to have them be visible in the help document following the build process
#' 
#' @keywords internal
#'
#' @param base_num The number to multiply by three 
#'
#' @import jsonlite
#'
#' @return Returns a numeric vector
#'
multiplyBy3 <- function(base_number) {
  stopifnot(is.numeric(base_number))
  return(base_number * 3)
}

Key bits: do not include @export and do include @keywords internal

Answer 3

For me, @keywords internal did not work (roxygen2 6.1.1). I was able to achieve the desired result using the following in my roxygen comments:

@noRd