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Reputation: 149

Describe function in Hmisc and prettyR - masking problems

I like aspects of the prettyR describe function and aspects of Hmisc describe function. When both packages are loaded, the prettyR describe masks the Hmisc describe. I have looked around and found that code such as: 

Hmisc::describe(flu$nprloc3)

will supposedly make the Hmisc describe take precedence. I've tried this but I seem to still get the prettyR output. Am I doing anything wrong? I've also tried to find a way to just unload the prettyR package from my global environment (but not uninstall it) but have not been successful.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 497

Answers (1)

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263451

Hmisc::describe is generic and may need to be called by the particular class-extension.

 methods(describe)
#[1] describe.data.frame describe.default    describe.formula    describe.matrix    
#[5] describe.vector

Try:

Hmisc::describe.vector(1:10)

(I'm not sure this is supposed to be what is happening and it still may be a problem with how one or both of these packages are constructed. I'd nominate prettyR as the likely offender here, since prettyR::describe is not generic, and it seems to be crippling the generic dispatch in keeping Hmisc::describe from working properly)

Upvotes: 1

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