[Rd] evaluation in unattached namespace
Deepayan Sarkar
deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 01:39:01 CEST 2007
Hi,
I recently discovered this buglet in lattice: If lattice is _not_
attached, I get
> lattice::dotplot(~1:10)
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : could not find function "bwplot"
This happens because of this:
> lattice:::dotplot.formula
function (x, data = NULL, panel = "panel.dotplot", ...)
{
ocall <- ccall <- match.call()
ccall$data <- data
ccall$panel <- panel
ccall[[1]] <- as.name("bwplot")
ans <- eval.parent(ccall)
ans$call <- ocall
ans
}
<environment: namespace:lattice>
That is, ccall is eval()-ed in the global environment where bwplot is
not visible. While this example is somewhat silly, similar things
happen when I try to import lattice from another package.
Are there any simple alternatives? I tried
ccall[[1]] <- as.name("lattice::bwplot")
but that didn't work either.
-Deepayan
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