Packages 'effects' loads 'name' which conflicts with 'lme4' [corrected subject: Package 'effects' loads 'nlme' which conflicts with 'lme4']
Dear John, et al.:
What happens if lme4 is loaded before the effect package?
Is this an issue of a user wanting to use two different packages
with potentially conflicting names? What are the standard
recommendations for handling issues like this? Just to test my
comprehension, I assume that the key is that users should routinely
watch for warnings of name conflicts and follow the advice of sect.
"1.6.1 Specifying imports and exports" of "Writing R Extensions" when
that occurs? (This is another reason for writing R packages and using
namespaces, so users can record appropriately what they want in
situations like this and not have to worry about name conflicts later?)
Thanks,
Spencer
On 3/8/2012 4:19 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
Dear John, Thanks for the quick response. It works perfectly. Michael On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:19 PM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Michael, effect() works with lmer(). Just load lme4 after the effect package. See the penultimate example in ?effect. I hope this helps, John ------------------------------------------------ John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:53:20 -0500 Michael Kubovy<kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:
Hi, I would like to use the effect() function (actually a slightly modified version of it) on the output of the lmer() function in the lme4 package. But the effects package requires the nlme pacvkage, which is incompatible with lme4. Workaround?
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