Is there a good way to do namespaces inside #rstats packages? I guess putting things in lists or envs, but I'd like to easily and temporarily use a namespace at the front of the symbol resolution search path and don't know how to manage that
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I'm guessing package::function isn't what you're looking for, right?
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No 馃檪. I鈥檝e got a package with what are basically a bunch of modules that I want to keep logically separate but bundled for distribution and loading. S4 objects or attach()鈥檌ng and detatch()鈥檌ng envs are probably what I want. I don鈥檛 really understand S4 though
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Got it. I don't really understand S4 either. @eddelbuettel might know (or would know who knows).
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Replying to @dondelelcaro @dnusinow
Hm, two different topics. Namespaces in R are mostly similar to use elsewhere and let you hide/expose as needed. S4 is a different topic but can be used with them. And yes S4 can be challenging. But it grew on me during the work on two recent packages.

Apr 26, 2021 路 11:58 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @dondelelcaro
I should probably learn S4 at some point but S3 has always been good enough for me. I feel like messing around with the search path is what I want to be doing but also that it鈥檚 a bad idea
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