R help - Jul 2009 - margins defined in randomForest and supclust

Hi there,

How to solve the conflicts as to the same object between two packages, for
example, like margins in both randomForest and supclust?

When both libraries are installed, supclust will complain "margins"
defined
in randomForest.

I can only solve it by re-starting R, which is very inconvenient, any clever
way?

Thanks,

Weiwei

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Weiwei Shi wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> How to solve the conflicts as to the same object between two packages, for
> example, like margins in both randomForest and supclust?
> 
> When both libraries are installed, supclust will complain
"margins" defined
> in randomForest.
> 
> I can only solve it by re-starting R, which is very inconvenient, any
clever
> way?

Well, the *package* (not library!) randomForest has a NAMESPACE and 
should not be affected by loading supclust afterwards - and you can 
access its margin function explicitly with randomForest::margin()

Unfortunately, supclust does not have a NAMESPACE and may be affected by 
later loading randomForest. Hence workaround is to load randomForest at 
first.
Aynway, you could try to convince the authors / maintainer of supclust 
to add a Namespace. I'll start bugging them by CCing this message. ;-)

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges




> Thanks,
> 
> Weiwei
>