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>>>>> Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>>> on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:15:00 +0100 writes:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Rolf Turner
> <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> But ***please*** say ``load *package*'', not ``load
>> library''. The *location* (collection of packages) from
>> which you wish to load the given package is the
>> ``library''.
> Anyone vote for deprecating the library() function and
> renaming it use() or requiring require() instead?
I'm voting pro.
We (R core) had planned to do this, probably about 5 to eight
years ago, then started discussing about possible features of
the new use() function, of making a package into an "object"
that you'd want to interrogate, ...
and then probably got tired ;-)
With the many moons passed, I'd now tend to *not* add features,
but really renamed 'library' to 'use'
and create a library() with a deprecation message which then
simply calls use()...
and yes, I'd allow a very exceptionally long deprecation period
of two to five years before making library() defunct.
Martin
> I mean, when I go get a book out of our library, I don't
> say "I'd like to library Case Studies in Spatial Point
> Process Modelling". Maybe we should use
> 'borrow(package)'? Then it might be clear you were getting
> a package from a library, and that you magically put it
> back at the end of your R session....
> Slightly silly mood this evening
> Barry
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