On Mon, 30 May 2005, Thomas Yee wrote:
Hello,
It seems that if glm used a namespace then the conflict would be avoided?
No. glm does use a namespace, so this can't be true. Remember that R
passes arguments by value, and consider
glm(y~x, family=poisson())
The namespace ensures that functions called from glm are looked up in the
stats namespace, but family() not called from glm(). It is called by the
user and the result is passed as an argument to glm().
The exception is when no family argument is supplied. In that case the
default argument is created by a call to family() from inside glm(), which
should always find stats::family
-thomas
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