Perhaps you could just call it Det. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM, David van Leeuwen <david.vanleeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
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