[Bioc-devel] namespace question

[Robert M. Flight]

In the cases of having conflicting names, is it not appropriate then to use
the "package::function" form for calling a particular function?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:14 PM Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com>
wrote:

> I can't find the hash function in IRanges. Are you sure it has one?
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Zhu, Lihua (Julie)
> <Julie.Zhu at umassmed.edu> wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I have the same user case as Kasper. Another example is that both IRanges
> > and hash packages have hash. I need to use the hash from the hash package
> > instead of the one from IRanges.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Julie
> >
> > On Mar 30, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
> > <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My usecase is when I import() two packages who has a conflict in a name.
> > For example, both Biobase and matrixStats has both anyMissing and
> > rowMedians. I am happy to get all of these two packages, but I need to
> > resolve the conflict.  Since I want to keep the ones from matrixStats I
> know
> > need to figure out how to import Biobase selectively.  Which I can, using
> > the tools from codetoolsBioC, but I would also be happy with an
> > importFromExcept(), which would make my life much easier.
> >
> > Best,
> > Kasper
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Michael Lawrence
> > <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm curious about which symbols you wouldn't want to import, and why.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Zhu, Lihua (Julie)
> >> <Julie.Zhu at umassmed.edu> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Is there a function to import all the exported objects from a package
> >> > except a few named ones in NAMESPACE file?
> >> >
> >> > For example, I would like to import all the functions in S4Vectors
> >> > except fold. Is there a way to  specify this without listing all other
> >> > functions using importFrom?
> >> >
> >> > Many thanks for your help!
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> >
> >> > Julie
> >> >
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