[R-SIG-Mac] How to avoid this error: the following objects are masked from 'package: boot'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 27/02/2012 15:50, Jeffrey Ryan wrote:
> Not really a mac question at all.
>
> It isn't an error message either, it is a warning to alert you to the
> fact that two objects are now called the same thing and you may not be
> seeing the one you originally expected (now that the latter package is
> 'masking' it)

And in a recent enough version of R you can use one of
boot::melanoma
lattice::melanoma
to select the one you want: the warning is to remind you that you may 
have to.

> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jason Love<jason.love1492 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> Does anybody know how to avoid the error message below and why this
>> happened?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jason
>>
>>> library(lattice)
>>
>> Attaching package: ‘lattice’
>>
>> The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:boot’:
>>
>>     melanoma
>>
>>> library(lattice)
>>
>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>>
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