Feature request: Load package functions into an existing environment even if it is not attached to the search path

[aryoda]

I normally source my util functions into a new environment and call the util functions by specifying the environment variable name to avoid flooding my global environment with util functions:

util <- new.env()
source("util.R", local=util)
util$hello()   # call the helper function

If the util code is stable I want to create a package.

To avoid changing all calls of the util functions I would like to use your package to load all package functions into a new enviornment:

util <- new.env()
import::from(util, .into = util)  # this does not work of course since "into" requires a string, not an environment

Would it be possible to add such a functionality?

PS: See also this question at SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40075236/load-library-into-existing-environment-equivalent-to-local-parameter-of-sour

[smbache]

I suppose the .into could be examined, and if this is an environment, then importing could target this instead...

[aryoda]

or by introducing a new parameter like .into.env to make the difference more clear (but overlading .into is also OK)...

[smbache]

I have added support for this, simply wrap the environment name in braces:

util <- new.env()
import::from(foo, bar, .into = {util})

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