[R] Name collisions

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Tim Fennell wrote:

> I am receiving a list of name collisions when I launch R as seen below.
> I'm new to R and any suggestion or help with how I can go about getting
> rid of these collisions would be greatly appreciated.

I don't think those messages are from R, but from your OS. What platform 
is this?  Googling came up with

http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.octave.general/2004-10/msg00228.html
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?20,84522,84522

which look relevant, so is this Solaris?  (I have never seen it there.)

I'd suggest talking to whoever installed R.

>
> % R
>
> R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> Name collision between M0 M0
> Name collision between M1 M1
> Name collision between M5 M5
> Name collision between MI MI
> Name collision between Mx Mx
> Name collision between My My
> Name collision between Mz Mz
> Name collision between Mu Mu Mu
> Name collision between Mu Mu
> Name collision between M2 M2
> Name collision between M3 M3
>
>
>

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