Namespace Reflection Support

Description

Internal functions to support reflection on namespace objects.

Usage

getExportedValue(ns, name)
getNamespace(name)
getNamespaceExports(ns)
getNamespaceImports(ns)
getNamespaceName(ns)
getNamespaceUsers(ns)
getNamespaceVersion(ns)

Arguments

Details

getExportedValue returns the value of the exported variable name in namespace ns.

getNamespace returns the environment representing the name space name. The namespace is loaded if necessary.

getNamespaceExports returns a character vector of the names exported by ns.

getNamespaceImports returns a representation of the imports used by namespace ns. This representation is experimental and subject to change.

getNamespaceName and getNamespaceVersion return the name and version of the namespace ns as character strings.

getNamespaceUsers returns a character vector of the names of the namespaces that import namespace ns.

Note

Comparison of versions should use compareVersion or

    as.package_version(getNamespaceVersion(ns))

Author(s)

Luke Tierney

See Also

loadNamespace for more about namespaces.