R help - Nov 2016 - Unexpected interference between dplyr and plm

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:52 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com>
wrote:
>>The other option would be to load dplyr first (which would give the
waring
>> that >stats::lag was masked) and then later load plm (which should
give a
>> further >warning that dplyr::lag is masked). Then the plm::lag
function will
>> be found
>>first.
>
> Another option is to write the package maintainers and complain
> that masking core functions is painful for users.
Don't worry; many people have done that.

Hadley

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> On Nov 29, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rstudio.com>
wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:52 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at
tibco.com> wrote:
>>> The other option would be to load dplyr first (which would give the
waring
>>> that >stats::lag was masked) and then later load plm (which
should give a
>>> further >warning that dplyr::lag is masked). Then the plm::lag
function will
>>> be found
>>> first.
>> 
>> Another option is to write the package maintainers and complain
>> that masking core functions is painful for users.
> 
> Don't worry; many people have done that.
Is it possible that the maintainer could add an explicit importation of  the lag
function from pkg:stats?

> 
> Hadley
> 
> -- 
> http://hadley.nz
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 4:09 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at
comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at
rstudio.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:52 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at
tibco.com> wrote:
>>>> The other option would be to load dplyr first (which would give
the waring
>>>> that >stats::lag was masked) and then later load plm (which
should give a
>>>> further >warning that dplyr::lag is masked). Then the
plm::lag function will
>>>> be found
>>>> first.
>>> 
>>> Another option is to write the package maintainers and complain
>>> that masking core functions is painful for users.
>> 
>> Don't worry; many people have done that.
> 
> Is it possible that the maintainer could add an explicit importation of 
the lag function from pkg:stats?
Sorry. Meant to ask explicitly whether the plm maintainer could do that for plm
users. Seems clear that dplyr is holding its ground.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Hadley
>> 
>> -- 
>> http://hadley.nz
> 
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
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