Hi all, I'm trying to understand how the search path and namespaces interact. For example, take the devtools package which suggests the testthat package. Here's what the search path looks like after I load each of those packages:
> library(devtools) > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:devtools" "package:stats" [4] "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" "package:utils" [7] "package:datasets" "package:methods" "Autoloads" [10] "package:base" > library(testthat) > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:testthat" "package:devtools" [4] "package:stats" "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" [7] "package:utils" "package:datasets" "package:methods" [10] "Autoloads" "package:base" My question is this: when I execute the test function in devtools function it calls the the test_package function in the testthat package - but that function is located higher up the search path - how does R find it? (I ask this question because I'm trying to simulate package loading from within R to simplify the development cycle, but something is missing in my knowledge of namespaces, and so I have the devel versions of my packages can't access packages that are loaded after they are) Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
