Message-ID: <971536df050529062373f22de3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2005-05-29T13:23:55Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Incompatibility with VGAM
In-Reply-To: <4298F4D1.4080303@acelerate.com>
As a workaround you could try detaching and re-attaching vgam
before and after running glm.
detach("package:vgam")
glm(...whatever...)
library(vgam)
On 5/28/05, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil at acelerate.com> wrote:
> I just discovered that when the VGAM package (not on CRAN) is loaded,
> glm() doesn't work. This is because VGAM defines a family function()
> which gets found
> by glm() in place of the family function from stats.
> Then VGAM:::family returns an object which doesn't have a $family
> component, (it has a component
> $vfamily).
>
> I thought namespaces should protect us from this happening?
>
> Kjetil
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