[R] Incompatibility with VGAM

[Gabor Grothendieck]

As a workaround you could try detaching and re-attaching vgam 
before and after running glm.

detach("package:vgam")
glm(...whatever...)
library(vgam)

On 5/28/05, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil at acelerate.com> wrote:
> I just discovered that when the VGAM package (not on CRAN) is loaded,
> glm() doesn't work. This is because VGAM defines a family function()
> which gets found
> by glm() in place of the family function from stats.
> Then VGAM:::family returns an object which doesn't have a $family
> component, (it has a component
> $vfamily).
> 
> I thought namespaces should protect us from this happening?
> 
> Kjetil
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