Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508261643370.11188@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-08-26T15:45:57Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Functions with the same name: best practices
In-Reply-To: <f8e6ff05050826083030aee9b8@mail.gmail.com>
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.
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