[R-pkg-devel] two functions with the same name when importing

[Martin Morgan]

RShowDoc("R-exts") setion 1.5.1 Specifying imports and exports indicates that imports() has an except= argument, so

import(adegenet, except = plot)

might do the trick. Use it in your package as `adegenet::plot()`. 

Martin Morgan

On 11/6/19, 8:31 PM, "R-package-devel on behalf of Duncan Murdoch" <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org on behalf of murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:

    On 06/11/2019 6:50 p.m., Bernd.Gruber wrote:
    > Hi,
    > 
    > I have a problem regarding the name of two functions and I know the "correct" way is to use importFrom to make sure only specified functions are imported. But my problem is that my package really depends on another package
    > adegenet as I basically use 90% of the say >100 functions.
    > 
    > So when I import all of adegenet I get:
    > 
    > 2: replacing previous import 'adegenet::plot' by 'graphics::plot' when loading 'dartR'
    > 
    > 
    > So in essence I think adegenet is importing a plot function which collides with the basic plot function. Is there anything I can do, without going through 100 functions and using importFrom
    > 
    > In addition I actually need the plot function from adegenet, so I would need to rename it as well somehow.
    > 
    > Any hint how to solve this would be highly appreciated.
    
    Just get a copy of the adegenet NAMESPACE file to get all of its 
    exports.  Edit the list down to the ones you use, and use a text editor 
    to change the export directives to importFrom directives.  It's not 
    really that hard.
    
    The path to the NAMESPACE file is given by
    
    system.file("NAMESPACE", package="adegenet")
    
    Duncan Murdoch
    
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