Gabor, To play devil's advocate a bit, why not just have the package formally import the functions it wants to use (or the whole package if that is easier)? Also, if your package Depends on another package, instead of importing it (e.g. because the end user will need functions in it in order to meaningfully use your functions), I imagine you *want* to hit symbols in that package before base, right? Otherwise the Depends mechanism becomes somewhat crippled because you'd need to import symbols from packages you Depend on, at least in certain cases.
You don't want to require people to import things like the assignment operator, or "if", or a bunch of other things in the base package (and probably not the stuff in grDevices either, though from your description they would in principle need to do that now). But why should stats not require an import if you want to guarantee that you get the density function from stats and not from somewhere else? Isn't that what ImportFrom is for? Is the reason that it is loaded automatically? Best, ~G On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Winston Chang <winstoncha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > E.g. if package 'ggplot2' uses 'stats::density()', and package 'igraph' > > > also defines 'density()', and 'igraph' is on the search path, then > > > 'ggplot2' will call 'igraph::density()' instead of 'stats::density()'. > > > > > > Just to be clear: you mean that this happens when ggplot2 contains a > > call like 'density()', not 'stats::density()' (but the intention is to > > call stats::density()), right? > > > > Yes, exactly as you say, I am sorry for the confusion. This is actually a > real example: > https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/issues/1041 > > Gabor > > > > > > -Winston > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Gabriel Becker, PhD Computational Biologist Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genentech, Inc. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
