[ESS] r-related question: editing NAMESPACEd functions in packages
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sun Nov 20 22:33:27 CET 2011
>>>>> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:44:39 +0100 writes:
>>
>> Probably I am missing something but how exactly
>> attach(asNamespace(.)) solves the problem? The functions
>> in the attached namespace cannot see the objects in
>> .GlobalEnv the same way how functions in namespaces
>> attached by library cannot see those.
> To make the attach(asNamespace(.)) work, one would have
> to change the environment of all functions in attached
> namespace to .GlobalEnv and attach the package imports, to
> make sure .GlobalEnv has precedence and imports are
> visible as well. Messy stuff :(
Indeed. Michael made a very good point about the recursive imports(),
and even w/o that, my "trick" hasn't been clean
> Methods apparently behave differently. If you redefine a
> method from attached namespace in .GlobalEnv, functions
> from namespace will use the method from .GlobalEnv and not
> the one in the namespace. Looks like
> attach(asNamespace(.)) is a way to go for S4 development
> at least.
"a way" yes, and as I've been working quite a bit with S4
methods, it has often helped me...
But as said above, it's not clean, there should be something better.
(but that should/will depend on how R 2.15.0 (and later) will
look; as said, that should be a topic on the R-devel mailing
list ... but I must devote my time to something else for a while)
Martin
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