> From: Gabor Grothendieck
>
> Dirk Koschuetzki <dkoschuetzki <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
> :
> : Hello,
> :
> : I work with two packages sna and graph from CRAN resp.
> Bioconductor. Both
> : packages have a function called "degree". Therefore one of
> the functions
> : is masked by the other and which one gets called depends on
> the order of
> : loading. The problem is that both package do not have a namespace,
> : therefore calling the masked function with
> "package::degree" does not
> : work. See the following transcript:
> :
> : $ R --vanilla
> :
> : [[ Running on Debian Sarge ]]
> :
> : R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> : Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> : [...]
> :
> : > library("sna")
> : > library("graph")
> : Loading required package: cluster
> : Loading required package: Ruuid
> : Creating a new generic function for "print" in "Ruuid"
> : Loading required package: Biobase
> : Loading required package: tools
> : Welcome to Bioconductor
> : Vignettes contain introductory material. To view,
> : simply type: openVignette()
> : For details on reading vignettes, see
> : the openVignette help page.
> : > conflicts()
> : [1] "last.warning" "degree" "body<-" "print"
> "split"
> : [6] "union"
> :
> : > sna::degree()
> : Error in loadNamespace(name) : package 'sna' does not have
> a name space
> : > graph::degree()
> : Error in loadNamespace(name) : package 'graph' does not
> have a name space
> : > sna:::degree
> : Error in loadNamespace(name) : package 'sna' does not have
> a name space
> : > graph:::degree
> : Error in loadNamespace(name) : package 'graph' does not
> have a name space
> :
> : Is there a way to call the masked function via a different way?
> : And I wold like to create my own function degree which will
> of course
> : masked both functions and should therefore be able to call
> both functions.
> :
>
> The following looks up the position of the graph package on the
> search path and gets degree specifically from there,
> invokes it with the indicates arguments.
>
> graph.degree <- function(...)
> get("degree", grep("package:graph$", search()))(...)
>
Just
get("degree", "package:graph")(...)
will do. I'd suggest adding require(graph) to make sure it's loaded.
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