[R] Unwanted association between a function and a namespace

Patrick Connolly p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz
Tue Jan 5 20:33:50 CET 2010


On Thu, 24-Dec-2009 at 02:14PM +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:

ly way I found to get round the problem was to make an
|> additional function Summarize in the same place.  It involves editing
|> any old scripts/functions before they work, but work they do.

In case anyone was following this thread, I solved the problem by
overwriting the summarize function with the Summarize function.

summarize <- Summarize

Then copied that to the appropriate directory.  Now all my previous
code still works unmodified.  End of problem -- though I'm still
mystified as to how it arose in the first place.


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