On 7 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 2/7/2006 8:48 PM, Seth Falcon wrote: >>> Is there a way to rename a function when importing it? I >> want to say, >>> "import yourFunc from Foo as myFunc" in the NAMESPACE file. >> > > I don't think Seth's facility exists yet, but it has occurred to me > previously that it would be useful when you need to import two > different functions with the same name from two different > packages. (Rare but does happen.) Duncan's solution won't get around > that. So it would be nice to be able to do this > > ImportFromAs( 'pack1', 'funca', 'pack1.funca') > ImportFromAs( 'pack2', 'funca', 'different.name.altogether') > > in a NAMESPACE file. Useful-- yes. Possible-- I don't know!
Yes, this is along the lines of what I was thinking. An unpleasant work around would be to create a translation package that does something along the lines of Duncan M.'s suggestion, importing, renaming, exporting. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
