On 13-04-23 3:51 PM, Patrick Burns wrote:
Okay, that's a good reason why it shouldn't.

Why it should is that I want to substitute
the first element of a call to be a function
including the namespace.

Three ways:

1.  Assign the function from the namespace locally, then call the local one.
2.  Import the function in your NAMESPACE (if you know the name in advance).
3.  Construct an expression involving ::, and substitute that in.

For example:

substitute(foo(x), list(foo=quote(baz::bar)))

Duncan Murdoch


Pat


On 23/04/2013 18:32, peter dalgaard wrote:

On Apr 23, 2013, at 19:23 , Patrick Burns wrote:

'as.name' doesn't recognize a name with
its namespace extension as a name:

as.name("lm")
lm
as.name("stats::lm")
`stats::lm`
as.name("stats:::lm")
`stats:::lm`


Is there a reason why it shouldn't?

Any reason why it should? :: and ::: are operators. foo$bar is not the same as 
`foo$bar` either.



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