Re: [Rd] alternatives to do.call() when namespace is attached but not loaded?

2015-02-24 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 24 Feb 2015, at 19:53 , Hadley Wickham wrote: > > do.call(sna::snaFunName, args = args) > > ? > I was about to suggest something similar. The key is that the first arg to do.call is not necessarily a text string; it can be the actual function object. So something along the lines of n

Re: [Rd] alternatives to do.call() when namespace is attached but not loaded?

2015-02-24 Thread Hadley Wickham
do.call(sna::snaFunName, args = args) ? Hadley On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Skye Bender-deMoll wrote: > Dear R-devel > > I have a function in a package that essentially provides a wrapper for a > group of functions in another Suggested package (it sets appropriate > defaults for the context

Re: [Rd] alternatives to do.call() when namespace is attached but not loaded?

2015-02-24 Thread Winston Chang
First, a clarification of terminology: a package can be loaded and attached, or loaded and not attached. It can't be attached and not loaded. To get the function from a package by name, you could do something like: getExportedValue("sna", snaFunName) where snaFunName is a string containing the

[Rd] alternatives to do.call() when namespace is attached but not loaded?

2015-02-24 Thread Skye Bender-deMoll
Dear R-devel I have a function in a package that essentially provides a wrapper for a group of functions in another Suggested package (it sets appropriate defaults for the context, transforms output, etc). I've implemented this by verifying that the package was loaded with require(sna) and