Please do not - report on ancient versions of R. - use R-bugs for reports on contributed packages.
It is hard to see why you think this is a bug, but you could ask the authors of the two packages to work together to avoid this (or add namespaces to protect the packages against this). On Wed, 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Ronald van Nooijen > Version: 1.4.1 and 1.5.0, evd 2.2-3 > OS: windows xp > Submission from: (NULL) (130.161.12.43) > > > In an empty workspace first load package evd, then load package evir. > a call to any of the routines dgumberl, qgumbel etcetera will now result in an > error message of the form > > Error in qgev(p, loc = loc, scale = scale, shape = 0, lower.tail = > lower.tail) : > > unused argument(s) (loc = 0, scale = 1, shape = 0, lower.tail = TRUE) > > (It seems that evir::dgev masks evd::dgev and that the different parameter > names > create a problem in the implementation of dgumbel) [part of another report deleted.] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel