[R] giving priority to stats package

[Greg Snow]

I was thinking of using length(search())+1 to be safe and simple.
Using grep gives higher priority than length while still solving your
issue.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:06 PM Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Goold idea.  This seems to work.
>
>   library(dplyr, pos = grep("package:stats", search()) + 1)
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:27 PM Greg Snow <538280 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You could use the `pos` arg to place the newly loaded package(s) on
> > the search path after the stats package.  That would give priority for
> > any functions in the stats package over the newly loaded package (but
> > also give priority for any other packages earlier on the search path).
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:25 AM Gabor Grothendieck
> > <ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > library and require have new args in 3.6 giving additional control
> > > over conflicts.  This seems very useful but I was wondering if there
> > > were some, preferabley simple, way to give existing loaded packages
> > > priority without knowing the actual conflicts in advance.  For example
> > >
> > >     library(dplyr, exclude = c("filter", "lag"))
> > >
> > > works to avoid masking those names in stats that would otherwise be
> > > masked by that package but I had to know in advance that filter and
> > > lag were the conflicting names.
> > >
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