Re: [Rd] Making parent.env<- an error for package namespaces and package imports

2014-10-18 Thread Tierney, Luke
I'll look into it Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:13 AM, "Karl Millar" wrote: > > I'd like to propose a change to the R language so that calling > 'parent.env<-' on a package namespace or package imports is a runtime > error. > > Currently the documentation warns that it's dangerou

[Rd] Making parent.env<- an error for package namespaces and package imports

2014-10-16 Thread Karl Millar
I'd like to propose a change to the R language so that calling 'parent.env<-' on a package namespace or package imports is a runtime error. Currently the documentation warns that it's dangerous behaviour and might go away: The replacement function ‘parent.env<-’ is extremely dangerous as