And to answer the “What do I read ...?” question help.search('masked’)
returns quite a few things on my system, and the one you want is base::conflicts Search for Masked Objects on the Search Path Then of course ?conflicts Also, having seen those messages, you can do find(‘norm’) find(‘cor’) -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 9/24/14, 11:22 AM, "Rich Shepard" <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > When a library is loaded messages such as these are displayed: > >The following object is masked from ʽpackage:baseʼ: > > norm > >The following object is masked from ʽpackage:NADAʼ: > > cor > > What do I read to understand just what being masked means? > >Rich > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.