[R] Over-writing functions from other packages? What is a good strategy??

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 13:18:12 CET 2007


Sometimes but its also easy to forget about simple solutions.

On 3/21/07, Alberto Monteiro <albmont at centroin.com.br> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >
> > Could you call yours Edges?
> >
> Is it a good idea to have two different functions, whose name
> differs by case sensitivity? I believe this is a shortcut to
> Chaos :-)
>
> IMHO, case sensitivity should _only_ be used for aesthetical
> purposes, else it may result in errors that are very difficult
> to find. Of course, YKMV.[*]
>
> Alberto Monteiro
>
> [*] I always use S.I. units :-)
>
>



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