devtools::load_all() infinite recursion

[sbgraves237]

Might someone care to revise devtools::load_all() to prevent an infinite recursion?

BACKGROUND

I accidentally pasted devtools::load_all() into an R/*.R file defining a data set,[1] as described in section 7.1.2 Documenting datasets of Wickham and Bryan: R Packages. Then when I executed devtools::load_all(), I got an infinite recursion. Then I embarrassed myself by asking [R-pkg-devel] about it. Duncan Murdoch kindly identified the problem for me.

Thanks for your work on this. It is quite valuable.

Spencer Graves

[1]

https://github.com/sbgraves237/SS4Maddison/blob/main/R/MaddisonProjectData.R