getSomewhere: Get an exported object by name, possibly from unattached...
In jefferys/DataRepo: Manage a large data file repository

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A wrapper around get that allows using a qualified names like 'SomePackage::myFunc' to retrieve an object from a specific unattached (but loaded) package. Qualified names are recognized, parsed and then getFromNamespace is called instead ofget.

1	getSomewhere(x, ...)

`x`	An object name, as a string. May be qualified with a prefixed `package::` identifier, in which case the object must be from that package. Unexported objects will not be found; looking for `:::` qualified objects is an error.
`...`	Extra parameters (`pos, envir, mode, inherits`) to pass on to `get`). These are ignored if `x` is a qualified name, Other parameters will trigger an error, but only if `x` is an unqualified name. Since `get` is called from within a wrapper function in this package, these parameters will behave differently than if you called `get` directly.

The object named. It is an error if the object is not found.

getSomewhere('ls')
#=> Returns base::ls, as base package is always loaded and attached.

try( getSomewhere('getAnywhere'))
#=> ERROR - utils::getAnywhere is not attached (it is loaded)
getSomewhere('utils::getAnywhere')
#=>