[Rd] NAMESPACE Q: does import as exist?

[Romain Francois]

Le 08.02.2006 04:26, Seth Falcon a écrit :

>On  7 Feb 2006, Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:
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>>>On 2/7/2006 8:48 PM, Seth Falcon wrote:
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>>>>Is there a way to rename a function when importing it?  I 
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>>>want to say, 
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>>>>"import yourFunc from Foo as myFunc" in the NAMESPACE file.
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>>I don't think Seth's facility exists yet, but it has occurred to me
>>previously that it would be useful when you need to import two
>>different functions with the same name from two different
>>packages. (Rare but does happen.) Duncan's solution won't get around
>>that. So it would be nice to be able to do this
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>>ImportFromAs( 'pack1', 'funca', 'pack1.funca')
>>ImportFromAs( 'pack2', 'funca', 'different.name.altogether')
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>>in a NAMESPACE file. Useful-- yes. Possible-- I don't know!
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>Yes, this is along the lines of what I was thinking.  
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>An unpleasant work around would be to create a translation package
>that does something along the lines of Duncan M.'s suggestion,
>importing, renaming, exporting.
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What about :

bar <- pack::foo
kok <- otherpack::foo


Romain

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