How to manually create and load namespaces in R [duplicate]

Answer 1

It turns out that this is possible with the largely undocumented namespace package:

library(namespace)
ns <- makeNamespace("myNamespace")
assign("test", 7, env=ns)
setNamespaceInfo(ns, "exports", as.environment(list(test="test")))
print(myNamespace::test)

Not sure how safe this is though. For example sessionInfo doesn't work anymore:

> sessionInfo()
Error in if (pkgpath == "") { : argument is of length zero