[R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: Two packages with the same generic function
It's described in ?library; tere is also a post on the R-blog at https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2019/03/19/managing-search-path-conflicts/index.html Best, luke
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Wait; I have options on how to configure conflict resolution? Can you tell me where to read more about this feature? Thanks, ? Kevin On 6/22/2020 10:51 PM, luke-tierney at uiowa.edu wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Bert Gunter wrote:
"Users don't get warned about overriding names in packages they've loaded, because that would just be irritating."
All Duncan is saying is that you don't get a notification if you do ??? mean <- log in the interpreter. If you attach a package that does this you would get a notification (or an error if you configure your conflict resolution options appropriately). Best, luke
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