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conflicts {base}

Package: 
base
Version: 
R 2.15.0

Description

conflicts reports on objects that exist with the same name in two or more places on the search path, usually because an object in the user's workspace or a package is masking a system object of the same name. This helps discover unintentional masking.

Usage

conflicts(where = search(), detail = FALSE)

Arguments

where
A subset of the search path, by default the whole search path.
detail
If TRUE, give the masked or masking functions for all members of the search path.

Values

If detail=FALSE, a character vector of masked objects. If detail=TRUE, a list of character vectors giving the masked or masking objects in that member of the search path. Empty vectors are omitted.

Examples

lm <- 1:3
conflicts(, TRUE)
## gives something like
# $.GlobalEnv
# [1] "lm"
#
# $package:base
# [1] "lm"
 
## Remove things from your "workspace" that mask others:
remove(list = conflicts(detail=TRUE)$.GlobalEnv)

Documentation reproduced from R 2.15.0. License: GPL-2.