> Correct. I'm doing this because of non-exported functions in other packages, > so I need :::
But you really really shouldn't be doing that. Is there a reason that the package authors won't export the functions? > I'd still appreciate any insight about whether importFrom in NAMESPACE > defers package loading so that if the package is not actually used (and is > not installed) there will be no problem. Imported packages need to be installed - but it's the import vs. suggests vs. depends statement in DESCRIPTION that controls this behaviour, not the namespace. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
