Wouldn't it be neat if we as #RStats package developers could declare that some of the exported functions should not be attached by library()? Something like this:
> library(somepkg)
> hello()
hello world
> bye()
Error: object 'bye' not found
while you can still call:
> somepkg::bye()
bye bye
We can achieve this by adding a single line to base::library(), such that the package can declare bye() to be excluded when attached;
.packageExclude <- c("bye")
See https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R/issues/165
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