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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