[R] Access function as text from package by name

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:16 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do you mean:
> ?get

Doesn't work with :: etc:

> get("graphics::box")
Error in get("graphics::box") : object 'graphics::box' not found

I think parse()+eval() is pretty much unavoidable. After that, it's a
choice between deparse() and print()+capture.output().

-Deepayan


> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 11:44 PM Sigbert Klinke <sigbert using wiwi.hu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I guess I was not clear enough: the name of the function is stored as
> > string. Solutions which use the object directly do not help unfortunately.
> >
> > Thanks Sigbert
> >
> > Am 27.09.2018 um 12:30 schrieb Sigbert Klinke:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to have a function, e.g. graphics::box, as text.
> > > Currently I'am using
> > >
> > > deparse(eval(parse(text='graphics::box')))
> > >
> > > It is important that '::' and ':::' can be used in the name.
> > >
> > > Is there a simpler way?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Sigbert
> > >
> > >
> > >
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