I was thinking of using length(search())+1 to be safe and simple. Using grep gives higher priority than length while still solving your issue.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:06 PM Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Goold idea. This seems to work. > > library(dplyr, pos = grep("package:stats", search()) + 1) > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 1:27 PM Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You could use the `pos` arg to place the newly loaded package(s) on > > the search path after the stats package. That would give priority for > > any functions in the stats package over the newly loaded package (but > > also give priority for any other packages earlier on the search path). > > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:25 AM Gabor Grothendieck > > <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > library and require have new args in 3.6 giving additional control > > > over conflicts. This seems very useful but I was wondering if there > > > were some, preferabley simple, way to give existing loaded packages > > > priority without knowing the actual conflicts in advance. For example > > > > > > library(dplyr, exclude = c("filter", "lag")) > > > > > > works to avoid masking those names in stats that would otherwise be > > > masked by that package but I had to know in advance that filter and > > > lag were the conflicting names. > > > > > > -- > > > Statistics & Software Consulting > > > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > > > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > > > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > 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. > > > > > > > > -- > > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > > 538...@gmail.com > > > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.