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Etienne Racine
Etienne Racine

Reputation: 1363

Add objects to package namespace

I'd like to push a function inside a package namespace so it can access internal objects of that package (let's use stats package as an example). I've tried using

myfun <- function(x) print(x)
env = loadNamespace("stats")
assign("myfun", myfun , env)

But it is locked. So I've tried to unlock my object

unlockBinding("myfun", env)

Since myfun doesn't exist yet, I can't unlock it.

Any help ?

Upvotes: 40

Views: 14010

Answers (3)

Mark Bravington
Mark Bravington

Reputation: 536

Along the line of @Hadley's solution, but using the environment of the namespace, how about:

environment(myfun) <- asNamespace('stats')

Upvotes: 43

hadley
hadley

Reputation: 103898

Why not just set the environment of your new function to the right place?

myfun <- function(x) print(x)
environment(myfun) <- as.environment("package:stats")

Upvotes: 23

Richie Cotton
Richie Cotton

Reputation: 121057

You can access internal objects of a package using the triple colon operator :::. Take a look at, for example, as.roman and utils:::.roman2numeric. (Compare this to utils::.roman2numeric.) This could help you avoid having to put your function inside the namespace.

You might also want to look at dont.lockBindings in the mvbutils package, which stops namespaces being locked.

Upvotes: 7

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