[Rd] Can't Find Function After requireNamespace

[Simon Urbanek]

BTW: you probably also want to use requireNamespace(..., quietly=TRUE) otherwise if sort of defeats the purpose ...

On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Dario Strbenac <dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> I have a simple function :
>> 
>> f <- function()
>> {
>> if(requireNamespace("ggplot2"))
>>   qplot(Sepal.Length, Petal.Length, data = iris, color = Species)
>> else
>>   message("No graphics, just text.")
>> }
>> 
>> ggplot2 is in the Suggests field of the DESCRIPTION file. When I load the package, and run the function, I get an error :
>> 
>>> f()
>> Loading required namespace: ggplot2
>> Error in f() : could not find function "qplot"
>> 
>> I don't want all ggplot2 functions to be added to the search path, so I am not using require(ggplot2). How can I use it correctly ?
>> 
> 
> ggplot2::qplot(Sepal.Length, Petal.Length, data = iris, color = Species)
> 
> Cheers,
> S
> 
> 
>> R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Dario Strbenac
>> PhD Student
>> University of Sydney
>> Camperdown NSW 2050
>> Australia
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