tom soyer <tom.soyer <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > Sometime when I attach a dataset, R gives me the following > message/warning:"The following object(s) are masked from package:datasets: > column_name". Does anyone know what it means? Since it seems that the > dataset was attached and I could manipulate the data from the dataset > without problems, I am wondering what was R trying to tell me.
As far as I understand it: Imagine there is a package A with object tmp and you load it. When you load another package B with object of the same name i.e. tmp then you will access tmp from package B and not A. You might work though with namespaces, :: and ::: Gregor ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
