On 25/09/2014 11:46 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> No, masking does not imply inheritance. Simply that "foo" now refers to a different function, so you have to use "oldpkg::foo" if you want to get at the old function from your normal working environment.
I haven't read the book (?), but I'd guess what they refer to is the way
that package uses masking, rather than a claim about masking in general.
The cor() function in base R isn't a generic function, but it is masked
by one in the compositions package, which provides a variety of methods
for it. The default method calls the stats::cor function. So in that
sense it really does provide a kind of inheritance.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> Note that packages that call "foo" will continue to find the versions they intended to call if they are constructed correctly.
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> On September 25, 2014 8:19:14 AM PDT, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, MacQueen, Don wrote:
> >
> >> And to answer the “What do I read ...?” question
> >> help.search('masked’)
> >> returns quite a few things on my system, and the one you want is
> >
> >Don, et al.:
> >
> > Further research led me to re-read the beginning of "Analyzing
> >Compositional Data with R" where the authors describe the masking as
> >analgous (my interpretation) to instatiating an object as in Python or
> >wxPython. With the package compositions, there are functions with the
> >same
> >name as functions in other packages. The compositions package extends
> >functionality and implies that the parent functionality is inherited,
> >not
> >replaced.
> >
> > Perhaps this is the norm for all R packages.
> >
> >Thanks very much to all,
> >
> >Rich
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