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Re:RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R by _Wintermute on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:46PM (#39770482)
> which defines the symbols and methods exported by the package

Which are all dumped into the one single global namespace regardless if you want everything or not.

I can't remember the exact number, but tidyverse package imports literally thousands of things into your global namespace on package load, coupled with any other dependencies and you have a hell of a time figuring out where any function or constant came from.

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Re:RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R by mjhay on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:48PM (#39771202)
Calling library() is kind of an antipattern in production R code. You can either call namespaced functions (like say dplyr::mutate()), or use roxygen.

https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/articles/namespace.html

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Re:RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:27PM (#39771625)
Agreed but the GP isn't wrong. It's much much nicer to import a library with an alias in Python.
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