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How can I load a package but not put everything that it exports into the “main namespace”?
library(myPackage) # exports myVar
myVar # This works, but I want it not to work
myPackage::myVar # This works, and I do want it to work
For accessing the exported variables in a package,
::is sufficient. You don’t need to load the package for this syntax to work. As?":::"points out in the first paragraph of the Details section, the triple colon suggested by @csgillespie is intended for inspecting internal variables not exported by a package.