On 06/06/2014 10:26 AM, Bart Kastermans wrote:
To improve my R skills I try to understand some R code written by others.
Mostly
I am looking at the code of packages I use. Today I looked at the code for the
caret package
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/caret_6.0-30.tar.gz
in particular at the file R/adaptive.R
This file starts with:
adaptiveWorkflow <- function(x, y, wts, info, method, ppOpts, ctrl, lev,
metric, maximize, testing = FALSE, ...) {
library(caret)
loadNamespace("caret”)
From ?library and googling I can’t figure out what this code would do.
Why would you call library(caret) in the caret package?
I don't know that package, and since adaptiveWorkflow is not documented
at the user level, I can't tell exactly what the author had in mind.
However, code like that could be present for debugging purposes (and is
unintentionally present in the CRAN copy), or could be intentional. The
library(caret) call has the effect of ensuring that the package is on
the search list. (It might have been loaded invisibly by another
package.) This is generally considered to be bad form nowadays;
packages should function properly without being on the search list.
I can't think of a situation where loadNamespace() would do anything ---
it would have been called by library().
Duncan Murdoch
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