[R] its dates masked by chron

[Uwe Ligges]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>To redescribe the problem; I need to use dates from its
>>its depends on Hmisc
>>Hmisc depends chron
>>dates in chron masks dates in its
> 
> 
> So use its::dates ...

... or ask the package maintainer (which might be a hard task: the 
package currently appears to be more or less unmaintained) to fix this 
probably unintended behaviour.

Uwe Ligges



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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com>
>>Date: Oct 27, 2005 11:47 AM
>>Subject: its dates masked by chron
>>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>
>>
>>I built R 2.2.0 from source on my debian machine yesterday and updated
>>all packages. My problem is that "dates" function from its, that my
>>code heavely uses is now masked by "dates" from chron.
>>How can I specify tehat I want to use dates from its or how can I
>>prevent it from being masked?
>>
>>
>>>library(its)
>>
>>Loading required package: Hmisc
>>Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr
>>
>>Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview')
>>to see overall documentation.
>>
>>NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when
>>subsetting.  To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels().
>>
>>Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
>>
>>
>>        The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :
>>
>>         ecdf
>>
>>
>>Attaching package: 'chron'
>>
>>
>>        The following object(s) are masked from package:its :
>>
>>         dates
>>
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