[R] Masked help page

[Christian Hennig]

Hi list,

not really a problem to solve but a strange unwanted behavior (at least I
do not like it):

I'm loading
library(multiv)
to use sammon.
Later I load 
library(MASS)
which tells me that sammon is masked now, because
there is also a MASS version of sammon.

Since I believe that the MASS version is at least as good as the multiv
version, I would also use the MASS version, but
help(sammon)
still gives the help page for multiv's sammon.
The MASS version runs, though (and gives an error if I call it like I
would call the multiv version with dimension called p instead of k).

Is it a general behavior that if a function is masked, the help page still
is the old one?

That would not be too user friendly...

Best,
Christian

> version
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platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    8.0              
year     2003             
month    10               
day      08               
language R                


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