The way to keep a "clean namespace" is to selectively import symbols into your namespace, not to import _nothing_ into your namespace. Otherwise, your code will fill with namespace qualifications that distract from what is more important to communicate: the intent of the code. And no, there's no way to define method signatures using anything other than simple class names.
It would be interesting to explore alternative ways of specifying method signatures. One way would be if every package exported a "class reference" (class name with package attribute, at least) for each of its classes. Those could be treated like any other exported object, and referenced via namespace qualification. It would require major changes to the methods package but that should probably happen anyway to support disambiguation when two packages define a class of the same name. It would be nice to get away from the exportClasses() and importClasses() stuff. File that under the "rainy year" category. Michael On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:39 AM Bhagwat, Aditya <aditya.bhag...@mpi-bn.mpg.de> wrote: > > Dear Bioc devel, > > Is it possible to import the BSgenome class without attaching BiocGenerics > (to keep a clean namespace during the development of > multicrispr<https://gitlab.gwdg.de/loosolab/software/multicrispr>). > > BSgenome <- methods::getClassDef('BSgenome', package = 'BSgenome') > > (Posted earlier on BioC support<https://support.bioconductor.org/p/124442/> > and redirected here following Martin's suggestion) > > Thankyou :-) > > Aditya > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel -- Michael Lawrence Scientist, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group Office +1 (650) 225-7760 micha...@gene.com Join Genentech on LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
