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...ssion models would not work after that because the rep function had been blocked. It was very frustrating to me. Professor Ripley spotted the error and posed a message called "Don't use the names of R functions as variable names" http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch/msg11585.html. After that, I was terrified that any name I used might conflict with a built in R function name. Last month, i saw a student here with a political model and he used rep as a variable in a regression model, it seemed to work just fine. I surmise that the rise in usage of namespaces in R pack...