[R] identical function names from 2 packages

[Nick Matzke]

Thanks!!
Nick

On 5/18/11 7:06 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> See ?"::"
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Nick Matzke<matzke at berkeley.edu>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I load 2 packages that have a function with the same name, how do I tell
>> R to run one or the other?
>>
>> (Instead of having R automatically use the first- or last-loaded one,
>> whichever it is.  (Which is it, by the way.))
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Nick
>>
>>
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-- 
====================================================
Nicholas J. Matzke
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Student Researcher

Huelsenbeck Lab
Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics
4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building)
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, IB200B
Principles of Phylogenetics: Ecology and Evolution
http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/ib200b/
http://phylo.wikidot.com/


Lab websites:
http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=54
http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/hlab.html
Dept. personal page: 
http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370
Lab personal page: 
http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/members/matzke.html
Lab phone: 510-643-6299
Dept. fax: 510-643-6264

Cell phone: 510-301-0179
Email: matzke at berkeley.edu

Mailing address:
Department of Integrative Biology
3060 VLSB #3140
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140

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"[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. 
When people thought the earth was spherical, they were 
wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical 
is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your 
view is wronger than both of them put together."

Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The 
Skeptical Inquirer, 14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989.
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm