Whit Armstrong wrote: > Uwe, > > It was unclear whether you were referring to chron or its as being > unmaintained. > > I still maintain its, and I'm actually releasing a new version tonight > since Kurt has pointed out that the current version is failing package > checking.
Whit, that's great! I was waiting for an its update for quite some time now, you have never reacted to my automatically generated request to fix your package with R-2.2.0 release nor have you worked on the problem that causes a Warning in all current checks for R >= 2.2.0, hence I thought the package is rather unmaintained. > It seems that both its and chron use namespaces. I thought the intent > of namespaces was to prevent problems like this. I have to apologize (see Brian Ripley's reply), because I haven't tested myself that library(its) in fact does not cause chron to be loaded. Hence Namespace stuff should be sufficient. I was just wondering why someone would use the same name for a function that is masked by a package that automatically is attached some microseconds after library(its) is called. Best, Uwe > If there are namespace experts out there who can suggest a fix to this > problem, I'm happy to put it into the next release. > > -Whit > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges >>Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:07 PM >>To: Peter Dalgaard >>Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >>Subject: Re: [R] its dates masked by chron >> >>Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >> >>>Omar Lakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>To redescribe the problem; I need to use dates from its its >> >>depends on >> >>>>Hmisc Hmisc depends chron dates in chron masks dates in its >>> >>> >>>So use its::dates ... >> >>... or ask the package maintainer (which might be a hard task: the >>package currently appears to be more or less unmaintained) to >>fix this >>probably unintended behaviour. >> >>Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >> >>>>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>From: Omar Lakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Date: Oct 27, 2005 11:47 AM >>>>Subject: its dates masked by chron >>>>To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >>>> >>>> >>>>I built R 2.2.0 from source on my debian machine yesterday >> >>and updated >> >>>>all packages. My problem is that "dates" function from its, that my >>>>code heavely uses is now masked by "dates" from chron. >>>>How can I specify tehat I want to use dates from its or how can I >>>>prevent it from being masked? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>library(its) >>>> >>>>Loading required package: Hmisc >>>>Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr >>>> >>>>Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview') >>>>to see overall documentation. >>>> >>>>NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when >>>>subsetting. To get the old behavior of Hmisc type >> >>dropUnusedLevels(). >> >>>>Attaching package: 'Hmisc' >>>> >>>> >>>> The following object(s) are masked from package:stats : >>>> >>>> ecdf >>>> >>>> >>>>Attaching package: 'chron' >>>> >>>> >>>> The following object(s) are masked from package:its : >>>> >>>> dates >>>> >>>>______________________________________________ >>>>R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! >> >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> >>> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide! >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
