On 26 August 2012 at 18:25, Laurent Gautier wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I just stumbled on the following apparent oddity: the package "datasets"
| does not appear to export anything out of its namespace:
|
| > ns_datasets <- getNamespace('datasets')
| > getNamespaceExports(ns_datasets)
| character(0)
|
| Not the case with other packages (example here with "utils"):
| > ns_utils <- getNamespace('utils')
| > head(getNamespaceExports(ns_utils))
| [1] "?" ".DollarNames" "adist" "alarm" "apropos"
| [6] "aregexec"
|
| Is this a temporary glitch, or is there something new and specific to
| "datasets" ?
Seems to be on purpose -- here is its NAMESPACE file
# This package exports nothing (it uses lazydata)
# exportPattern(".")
ie nuttin' gets exported. It also has no R/ directory.
Dirk
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