Make formulae reach transformations before outer names (#109)

formulae/terms/call.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 from formulae.categorical import ENCODINGS, CategoricalBox, Treatment
 from formulae.config import config
+from formulae.environment import Environment
 from formulae.transforms import TRANSFORMS, Proportion, Offset
 from formulae.terms.call_utils import CallVarsExtractor
 from formulae.utils import is_categorical_dtype
@@ -100,8 +101,11 @@ def set_type(self, data_mask, env):
  env: Environment
  The environment where values and functions are taken from.
  """
-
- self.env = env.with_outer_namespace({**TRANSFORMS, **ENCODINGS})
+ # We initialize an environment where transformations and encodings are available first
+ # This makes sure formulae uses the internal objects instead of objects that may be
+ # available in the namespace where 'design_matrices' is called.
+ transforms_env = Environment([{**TRANSFORMS, **ENCODINGS}])
+ self.env = transforms_env.with_outer_namespace(env.namespace)
  x = self.call.eval(data_mask, self.env)
 
  if is_numeric_dtype(x):