I am trying to straighten up my DSE package to use require() as that seems to be a good mechanism. I have several packages: dse requires tframe which requires syskern which masks a few methods in base ( RNGkind rnorm runif). If I do require(dse) I get 3 copies of a six line warning (lots of white space) about syskern methods masking base methods. If I use library(dse) I only get 2. (I've simplified the situation somewhat, I really have five or six levels of requires and lots and lots of warning messages.) It would be nice if a single warning could be produced, but at least could require() please be modified with a warn.conflicts argument which is passed to library. Below is a fixed version. Paul Gilbert _______ require <- function (name, quietly = FALSE, warn.conflicts=TRUE) { name <- as.character(substitute(name)) if (!exists(".Provided", inherits = TRUE)) assign(".Provided", character(0), envir = .GlobalEnv) if (is.na(match(paste("package", name, sep = ":"), search())) && is.na(match(name, .Provided))) { if (!quietly) cat("Loading required package:", name, "\n") library(name, char = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts=warn.conflicts) } else TRUE } -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._