its dates masked by chron

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com> writes:

To redescribe the problem; I need to use dates from its
its depends on Hmisc
Hmisc depends chron
dates in chron masks dates in its

So use its::dates ...
... or ask the package maintainer (which might be a hard task: the
package currently appears to be more or less unmaintained) to fix this
probably unintended behaviour.
If he can reproduce it: I cannot.

Hmisc does not say it depends on chron according to its DESCRIPTION file,
so I don't see where the idea comes from.  A misreading of

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/Hmisc.html ?

Certainly Hmisc does not load chron (or anything else) on any of my 
systems. Further, dependencies are loaded *before* the package in 
question.  After
library(its)
I get
search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:its"       "package:Hmisc"
  [4] "package:methods"   "package:stats"     "package:graphics"
  ...

One way out would be to load chron, Hmisc and then its in that order,
but are these really the current its (1.0.9) and Hmisc (3.0-7)?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2005 11:47 AM
Subject: its dates masked by chron
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch

I built R 2.2.0 from source on my debian machine yesterday and updated
all packages. My problem is that "dates" function from its, that my
code heavely uses is now masked by "dates" from chron.
How can I specify tehat I want to use dates from its or how can I
prevent it from being masked?

library(its)
Loading required package: Hmisc
Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr

Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview')
to see overall documentation.

NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when
subsetting.  To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels().

Attaching package: 'Hmisc'

       The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :

        ecdf

Attaching package: 'chron'

       The following object(s) are masked from package:its :

        dates

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its dates masked by chron

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