Thanks Peter. That make sense.
On 22 Oct 2006 09:26:27 +0200, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> "tom soyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thanks Marc and Gregor for the detailed explanation. You are right, the
> > masking is potentially dangerous. Since R is object oriented, I am
> surprised
> > that this is an issue. Does this mean that encapsulation does not exist
> in
> > R?
>
> R does have namespaces, but you can't have your cake and eat it too:
> If your attached data frame contains a variable "airquality", then you
> can't both access that one and the same-named example dataset as just
> "airquality" (datasets::airquality still works).
>
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