Hello, I am trying to write an R package for doing analysis of speaker recognition systems. The big thing in this line of research is a DET-plot (detection Error Trade-off, a ROC plot with qnorm() warped axes). My approach has been to make a class "det" and also a function "det()" that will prepare the data into the right class.
Now loading the library doesn't like me re-defining the determinant function "det" from the base package. I have tried to save its definition using code like ## keep old definition of det() ## det.matrix <- det det <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("det") det.default <- base::det which allows me perfectly fine to use det() as determinant of a matrix, but still loading the library complains with a > library(sretools) Loading required package: fdrtool Attaching package: 'sretools' The following object(s) are masked from package:base : det Is there a recommended way to do this style of "overloading" (albeit a completely different kind of function), or am I simply not supposed to use the name of an existing function in my packages? Cheers, ---david -- David van Leeuwen ______________________________________________ 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.