Colons

Get an object from a namespace

Usage

package %::% name

package %:::% name

package %colons% name

Arguments

package

Name of the package

name

Name to retrieve

Value

The variable name from package package

Details

The functions mimic the use of :: and ::: for extracting values from namespaces. %colons% is an alias for %::%.

WARNING

To reiterate from other documentation: it is not advised to use ::: in your code as it will retrieve non-exported objects that may be more likely to change in their functionality that exported objects.

See also

help("::")

Examples

identical("base" %::% "mean", base::mean)
#> [1] TRUE
"fuj" %:::% "colons_example" # unexported value
#> [1] "Hello, world"