[R] giving priority to stats package

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Goold idea.  This seems to work.

  library(dplyr, pos = grep("package:stats", search()) + 1)

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:27 PM Greg Snow <538280 using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You could use the `pos` arg to place the newly loaded package(s) on
> the search path after the stats package.  That would give priority for
> any functions in the stats package over the newly loaded package (but
> also give priority for any other packages earlier on the search path).
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:25 AM Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > library and require have new args in 3.6 giving additional control
> > over conflicts.  This seems very useful but I was wondering if there
> > were some, preferabley simple, way to give existing loaded packages
> > priority without knowing the actual conflicts in advance.  For example
> >
> >     library(dplyr, exclude = c("filter", "lag"))
> >
> > works to avoid masking those names in stats that would otherwise be
> > masked by that package but I had to know in advance that filter and
> > lag were the conflicting names.
> >
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