R help - Apr 2007 - Documentation for namespaces

Brian Ripley recently replied to a comment of mine by referring to
a function 'assignInNamespace', which I had not heard of.

  Is there a good write up on name spaces in R?  There are little tidbits
in the manuals on the R site, but I found nothing substative.  I'd like
to understand these better.     

	Terry Therneau

See the article

Tierney, L. (2003): Name Space Management for R, R News 3 (1), 2-6.

Uwe Ligges



Terry Therneau wrote:
>   Brian Ripley recently replied to a comment of mine by referring to
> a function 'assignInNamespace', which I had not heard of.
> 
>   Is there a good write up on name spaces in R?  There are little tidbits
> in the manuals on the R site, but I found nothing substative.  I'd like
> to understand these better.     
> 
> 	Terry Therneau
> 
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/namespaces/morenames.html
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/useR-2004/Keynotes/Tierney.pdf
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-1.pdf

may all help, but there is as yet nothing (AFAIK) like a comprehensive 
user-level manual.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Terry Therneau wrote:
>  Brian Ripley recently replied to a comment of mine by referring to
> a function 'assignInNamespace', which I had not heard of.
>
>  Is there a good write up on name spaces in R?  There are little tidbits
> in the manuals on the R site, but I found nothing substative.  I'd like
> to understand these better.
>
> 	Terry Therneau
>
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