Well, once you begin messing with eval.parent(), you _are_ telling R what environment to work in, and things have the potential to go wrong at that point because you're telling R to work in environment you don't know anything about. Having to be explicit with a :: is just compensating for an earlier thing you "shouldn't need to" be doing with environments (in my opinion.)
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > [snip] > > > > The other choice is to use the explicit ::, i.e. > > > > mc[[1]] <- quote(lmer::lFormula) > > > > This would be the solution I'd prefer, but you seem to have some > > prejudice against :: . > > > > I just thought that the whole point of using the machinery of > namespaces, environments, etc., was that we shouldn't need to > tell R explicitly what environment we were working in ... > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
