On Tue, 31 May 2011, Romain Francois wrote:
Hello,
assignInNamespace refuses to assign an object to a name that is not already
used in the namespace.
That's intentional, and as documented:
‘assignInNamespace’ and ‘fixInNamespace’ are invoked for their
side effect of changing the object in the name space.
^^^^^^^^
I very much doubt we want to allow adding objects.
Something like this would make it possible:
--- src/library/utils/R/objects.R (revision 56024)
+++ src/library/utils/R/objects.R (working copy)
@@ -252,8 +252,9 @@
stop("environment specified is not a package")
ns <- asNamespace(substring(nm, 9L))
} else ns <- asNamespace(ns)
- if(bindingIsLocked(x, ns)) {
- unlockBinding(x, ns)
+ new_binding <- !exists(x,ns)
+ if( new_binding || bindingIsLocked(x, ns)) {
+ if(!new_binding) unlockBinding(x, ns)
assign(x, value, envir = ns, inherits = FALSE)
w <- options("warn")
on.exit(options(w))
Romain
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