It would be rather nice if we could define functions in our packages that must be called with the namespace prefix.
I'd like to do #' @protected (or some such) f = function(...) list(...) in package scope and then library(x) f(1) # fails x::f(1) # succeeds Currently unless I am missing something, a function is either exported to global scope or not available. This could be done if package loading made two environments, one in the path and another not in the path, and then have the namespace prefix search both in succession. Yes, you could do #' @export x_f = function(...) list(...) library(x) x_f(1) but I would prefer reusing the namespace prefix syntax. This would also avoid name collisions between package, which ideally is the purpose of a namespace. I suppose also you could make two packages and list one in Imports: but I find that less satisfying because it requires a different namespace prefix. Or am I missing something obvious here. THK http://www.keittlab.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel