From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Fri Sep 22 20:23:24 2006
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:23:24 +0200
Subject: [Rd] NAMESPACE
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Dominick Samperi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried to use NAMESPACE to prevent name conflicts between
> packages and it appears that once a name is exported it will clash
> with the same name if it is exported from another package, in
> particular, if that other package does not use NAMESPACE.
> 
> Is there a way to "export" a name so that the current package
> user can see it, but other packages cannot see it? My working
> assumption is that this is not possible, so I use a prefix like
> the package name to keep function names "local."

Your assumption is correct.

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks,
> ds
> 
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[Rd] NAMESPACE
Uwe Ligges