On 9/22/2006 2:07 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried to use NAMESPACE to prevent name conflicts between > packages and it appears that once a name is exported it will clash > with the same name if it is exported from another package, in > particular, if that other package does not use NAMESPACE. > > Is there a way to "export" a name so that the current package > user can see it, but other packages cannot see it? My working > assumption is that this is not possible, so I use a prefix like > the package name to keep function names "local."
I don't think so. Packages without namespaces start their search for names in the global environment, i.e. they see what a user sees. This makes them very fragile, and there's not much you can do about that, other than encouraging the author to bite the bullet and install a namespace. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
