Is it possible to attach this into the namespace to function similar to a package.

[systemnova]

I'm hoping to be able to access all functions in a module, to appear the same way as though it was a loaded package.

box::use(sf = ./CoreMisc/SF1[...])

Such that i could use:
sf::MyFunction()

rather than:
sf$MyFunction()

I tried:
attach(sf, name = "package:sf")

With no luck.

[klmr]

There are two questions here:

1. How to make module name access appear like package name access. In other words, access functions in modules and packages uniformly:

   To do this, import your packages via box::use() declarations as well, and use $ for both modules and packages. In fact, this is the intended way to use ‘box’; rather than using different mechanisms to load/access packages and modules, the same mechanism is used uniformly. When using ‘box’, the only place where :: should be used is for ‘box’ itself.

2. How to use :: to do (1):

   This is not supported, because it would change the semantics of base-R :: in a non-obvious way and thus lead to error-prone code. In R, :: is not merely a scope resolution operator (otherwise ‘box’ might have used it in place of $, see Module access operator #158). But R decided to make :: also load packages. In fact, the implementation of :: used to look something like the following, before it was changed in R 4.1:

   `::` = function (pkg, name) {
       pkg = deparse(substitute(pkg)
       name = deparse(substitute(name))
   
       ns = loadNamespace(pkg)
       getExportedValue(ns, name)
   }

   In other words, x::y is equivalent to box::use(x), followed by x$y. Subtly changing the meaning of :: to only mean x$y when x is a loaded module would be inconsistent and cause confusion.

(The reason attach does not do what you intended is because attach does not affect :: at all, regardless of ‘box’.)