Function's package conflict

[betobon]

Hi. Unusual situation to solve. I'm using two R packages and both of them have a function called "describe" to summarize statistics. The packages are "psych" and "qcc".
When a use "describe" I want to use from "psych" because is more complete but R/Rstudio takes "describe" from "qcc".
For a while I'm using the "describeBy" from "psych" but there is a warining message bacause I don't inform a "group" (of course because there is no one).
Is it possible to solve this conflict? Usually functions have different names but this case is a coincidence.
Thanks.
psych #qcc

[FactOREO]

You can just use the complete notation: package_name::function(). The package_name will clarify for R which namespace it should use.

[jrkrideau]

You have a conflict but it is not with qcc. qcc (Version 2.7 on my machine) does not have a describe function that I can see. I was going to suggest loading psych after qcc but discovered this when checking if it worked.

Do you, by any chance have Hmisc loaded?

``` r
library(qcc)
#> Package 'qcc' version 2.7
#> Type 'citation("qcc")' for citing this R package in publications.
data("warpbreaks")

describe(warpbreaks)
#> Error in describe(warpbreaks): could not find function "describe"

^{Created on 2023-02-19 with reprex v2.0.2}

[betobon]

Thank you. I will try this.

[betobon]

The updated version of 'qcc' package is not on CRAN repository. I'm using version 3.0 and you must install from Luca Scrucca Github (link). There some instruction to do so. I will take a look on 'Hmisc' packge. Thanks.

[jrkrideau]

@betobon

psych" and "qcc

Never thought of that.. And yes I see it now has a {describe} function.

A quick check with the new {qcc} suggests that loading it before {psych} will work.

If you are only doing this occasionally @ FactOREO's suggestion is likely the safer solution. If you are doing it regularly, mine cuts down on typing and the odd times you forget the psych:: prefix.