[R] Accidentally replacing core R functions

[MacQueen, Don]

One could get in the habit of typing
   conflicts()
from time to time.

Or perhaps
   conflicts(,TRUE)$.GlobalEnv

Various ways of semi-automating this come to mind, such as putting it in
one's .Rprofile file.

-Don

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On 8/3/13 12:47 AM, "Rguy" <rguy at 123mail.org> wrote:

>I sometimes find that a function I have defined has the same name as an R
>core function. In most cases I have no desire to redefine the core R
>function and would prefer to give my function a different name.
>
>The problem is that R lets users redefine its core functions without any
>warning. Is there a way to cause R to generate a warning if a core
>function
>is being redefined?
>
>To give an actual example, in my personal library of functions I have a
>'seek' function. I recently noticed that seek(con, ...) is part of base R.
>Now I plan to rename my personal 'seek' function but would have benefited
>from a warning when I first created this function.
>
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