[R] Packages 'effects' loads 'name' which conflicts with 'lme4' [corrected subject: Package 'effects' loads 'nlme' which conflicts with 'lme4']

[Spencer Graves]

Dear John, et al.:


       What happens if lme4 is loaded before the effect package?


       Is this an issue of a user wanting to use two different packages 
with potentially conflicting names?  What are the standard 
recommendations for handling issues like this?  Just to test my 
comprehension, I assume that the key is that users should routinely 
watch for warnings of name conflicts and follow the advice of sect. 
"1.6.1 Specifying imports and exports" of "Writing R Extensions" when 
that occurs?  (This is another reason for writing R packages and using 
namespaces, so users can record appropriately what they want in 
situations like this and not have to worry about name conflicts later?)


       Thanks,
       Spencer


On 3/8/2012 4:19 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. It works perfectly.
>
> Michael
>
> On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:19 PM, John Fox wrote:
>
>> Dear Michael,
>>
>> effect() works with lmer(). Just load lme4 after the effect package. See the penultimate example in ?effect.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> John
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> John Fox
>> Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
>> Department of Sociology
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:53:20 -0500
>> Michael Kubovy<kubovy at virginia.edu>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to use the effect() function (actually a slightly modified version of it) on the output of the lmer() function in the lme4 package. But the effects package requires the nlme pacvkage, which is incompatible with lme4. Workaround?
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