R help - Jul 2002 - Calling the correct one of 2 conflicting functions

Hello,

My specific system is
> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    5.1            
year     2002           
month    06             
day      17             
language R              


Each of the hmisc and stepfun packages has a function named ecdf(), and I
have my own package which requires both of these packages.  Is there a way
to ensure that the correct ecdf function is called by one of my own
functions, that is, if both packages are in the search path?  For example,
> library(stepfun);library(hmisc)
> vv <- rnorm(1000)
> ecdf(vv)
yields a plot using the hmisc ecdf function, and the following additional
staments yield a similar plot using Martin's version:
> detach("package:stepfun");library(stepfun)
> ecdf(vv)
> plot(.Last.value)
But then doing
> this <- ecdf(vv,pl=F)
,trying to use an argument to specify Frank's function, leads to an error.
Is there a way to explicitly call the function I want?  Thanks in advance.

Tom
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get("ecdf", "package:stepfun") will get the one in stepfun,
and so on.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richards, Tom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My specific system is
>
> > version
>          _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    5.1
> year     2002
> month    06
> day      17
> language R
>
>
> Each of the hmisc and stepfun packages has a function named ecdf(), and I
> have my own package which requires both of these packages.  Is there a way
> to ensure that the correct ecdf function is called by one of my own
> functions, that is, if both packages are in the search path?  For example,
>
> > library(stepfun);library(hmisc)
> > vv <- rnorm(1000)
> > ecdf(vv)
>
> yields a plot using the hmisc ecdf function, and the following additional
> staments yield a similar plot using Martin's version:
>
> > detach("package:stepfun");library(stepfun)
> > ecdf(vv)
> > plot(.Last.value)
>
> But then doing
>
> > this <- ecdf(vv,pl=F)
>
> ,trying to use an argument to specify Frank's function, leads to an
error.
> Is there a way to explicitly call the function I want?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
>
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