[Rd] NAMESPACE

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 04:13:46 CEST 2011


> Packages without explicit ‘NAMESPACE’ files will have a default one created at build or INSTALL time,
> so all packages will have namespaces. A consequence of this is that ‘.First.lib’ functions need to be
> renamed, usually as ‘.onLoad’ but sometimes as ‘.onAttach’.

Couldn't R simply regard .First.lib as the appropriate function to
save many packages from
being needlessly changed?

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