> 1.6 of Writing R Extensions says
>
> Note that adding a name space to a package changes the search strategy.
> The package name space comes first in the search, then the imports, then
> the base name space and then the normal search path.
>
> I'm not sure of the details, but I think
>
> parents(getNamespace("devtools"))
Ah, my mistake was assuming that the package namespace and environment
were the same thing.
Interestingly the namespace is dynamic:
> parents(getNamespace("devtools"))
...
[31] "base"
> library(roxygen)
> parents(getNamespace("devtools"))
...
[31] "Autoloads" "base"
Hadley
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