Functions with the same name: best practices
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, hadley wickham wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your advice. I will read up on namespaces and start using them to "protect" my internal function from name clashes with other packages, and endeavour to my public functions unique names. I know other languages (eg. python) separate loading a package and including it in the default namespace, do you think R will ever move to such a system?
I don't follow the terminology here, but in R you can load a namespace without making the exports visible, which sounds like what you are asking. In R `loading a package' means making its objects visible from the top-level scope.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595