> On 24 Feb 2015, at 19:53 , Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> do.call(sna::snaFunName, args = args)
>
> ?
>
I was about to suggest something similar. The key is that the first arg to
do.call is not necessarily a text string; it can be the actual function object.
So something along the lines of
name <- as.name("snaFunName")
f <- eval(bquote(sna::.(name)))
do.call(f, args)
should work too.
> Hadley
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Skye Bender-deMoll
> <skyeb...@skyeome.net> wrote:
>> Dear R-devel
>>
>> I have a function in a package that essentially provides a wrapper for a
>> group of functions in another Suggested package (it sets appropriate
>> defaults for the context, transforms output, etc). I've implemented this by
>> verifying that the package was loaded with
>>
>> require(sna)
>>
>> and then
>>
>> do.call(snaFunName, args = args)
>>
>>
>> The rDevel check is requesting that I use requireNamespace(sna) instead of
>> directly loading the SNA package. This seems reasonable, except that I have
>> yet to figure out a way to use do.call to call the function when the
>> namespace is attached but package is not loaded. do.call("sna::funName",..)
>> doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> 1) Can do.call() call functions that are only namespace attached? Is there
>> better way to accomplish this without do.call()? For example, should I use
>> getAnywhere('funName') ('tho this doesn't seem to permit restricting search
>> to a specific namespace..)
>>
>> 2) Is this an appropriate of require() instead of requireNamespace() to
>> ensure that the Suggested package is loaded and attached? Can I ignore the
>> check warning?
>>
>> best,
>> -skye
>>
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