[R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: Two packages with the same generic function

[iuke-tier@ey m@iii@g oii uiow@@edu]

It's described in ?library; tere is also a post on the R-blog at

https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2019/03/19/managing-search-path-conflicts/index.html

Best,

luke

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:

> Wait; I have options on how to configure conflict resolution? Can you tell me 
> where to read more about this feature?
>
> Thanks,
>   Kevin
>
> On 6/22/2020 10:51 PM, luke-tierney using uiowa.edu wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Bert Gunter wrote:
>> 
>>> "Users don't get warned about overriding names in packages they've
>>> loaded, because that would just be irritating."
>> 
>> All Duncan is saying is that you don't get a notification if you do
>> 
>>     mean <- log
>> 
>> in the interpreter. If you attach a package that does this you would
>> get a notification (or an error if you configure your conflict
>> resolution options appropriately).
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> luke
>> 
>
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