[R] LINEAR MIXED EFFECT

[tlumley at u.washington.edu]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, milton ruser wrote:

> Hi Ana, you did again :-)
>
>> require(fortunes)
>> fortune("dog")
> Firstly, don't call your matrix 'matrix'. Would you call your dog 'dog'?
> Anyway, it might clash with the function 'matrix'.
>   -- Barry Rowlingson
>      R-help (October 2004)
> if you call your data "data" you will crach data() function.
>

No. It won't.  Except in some fairly unusual circumstances, R can distinguish functions from other objects and find the one it needs.

The point is that code will usually be easier to read if you have different names for different things.

      -thomas


Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle