[Rd] getNamespaceExports("base") error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It would seem more logical to use .BaseNamespaceEnv.  Today it has the 
same contents as baseenv() (but a different enclosing env), but that may 
change.

I do wonder why you are using this: the R code clearly doesn't.  For base 
is not a normal namespace and is automatically imported into every other 
namespace (or similar words, as 'import' is used in a couple of senses in 
the documentation).

On Tue, 15 May 2007, ml-it-r-devel at epigenomics.com wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> >getNamespaceExports("base")
> Error in ls(NULL, all = TRUE) : using 'as.environment(NULL)' is defunct
>
> getNamespaceExports
> function (ns)
> {
>     ns <- asNamespace(ns)
>     if (isBaseNamespace(ns))
>         ls(NULL, all = TRUE)
>     else ls(getNamespaceInfo(ns, "exports"), all = TRUE)
> }
> <environment: namespace:base>
>
> One possible way to fix this could be to changed to e.g.
>
> if (isBaseNamespace(ns))
>   ls(envir=baseenv(), all = TRUE)
>
> Observed with
> R 2.5.0  &  R 2.6.0 devel (2007-05-12 r41546)
> (one has to go back to R 2.3.1 to see it working)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   Matthias
>
>
>

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