[R] its dates masked by chron

[Whit Armstrong]

Uwe,

It was unclear whether you were referring to chron or its as being
unmaintained.

I still maintain its, and I'm actually releasing a new version tonight
since Kurt has pointed out that the current version is failing package
checking.

It seems that both its and chron use namespaces.  I thought the intent
of namespaces was to prevent problems like this.

If there are namespace experts out there who can suggest a fix to this
problem, I'm happy to put it into the next release.

-Whit
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: Peter Dalgaard
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] its dates masked by chron
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >>---------- 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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