ns-dblcolon {base}R Documentation

Double Colon and Triple Colon Operators

Description

Accessing exported and internal variables in a name space.

Usage

pkg::name
pkg:::name

Arguments

pkg package name symbol or literal character string.
name variable name symbol or literal character string.

Details

The expression pkg::name returns the value of the exported variable name in package pkg if the package has a name space. The expression pkg:::name returns the value of the internal variable name in package pkg if the package has a name space. The package will be loaded if it was not loaded already before the call. Assignment into name spaces is not supported.

Examples

base::log
base::"+"
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