use package without calling library(wakefield) about wakefield HOT 4 OPEN

+1 to be able to use this without the package being loaded. e.g.

wakefield::r_data_theme(n = 100)

doesn't work without the package being loaded.

Would be great if this could work.

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@jackwasey This is a very generalizable problem. Nowadays many people prefer not to risk polluting their global search path.

• One of the solutions could be manipulating enclosing chain of environments of the r_data_frame function, injecting bindings from the package's namespace such as id and age in a parent environment.
• The other is to modify the r_data_frame function itself so that it always evaluate the symbols in the package's own namespace.

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@iqis any interest in a pull request?

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@trinker

I'm actually not able to reproduce the issue with wakefield::r_data_frame(id, age, n = 500)(which works perfectly) in R 3.6.0 and wakefield 0.3.3... Perhaps this has to do with R enforcing the use of namespaces in packages at some point between this question and now.

A packages function always look for bindings in the package's namespace first, it seems.

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