Rcmdr is masked from 'package:base'

Question

[Aurelija]

Good afternoon! When I load RCommander form RStudio packages, i get this message in Console: Could you please help me to solve this error?

[Aurelija]

Thank you for your help :)

Answer 1

[Basti]

This is not an error but only a warning, it means that base and Rcmdr packages contain functions with the same names

[ATpoint]

Yes, it means that if you want to use that function coming from the Rcmdr package then you should do it explicitely, like Rcmdr::errorCondition(). For that function it is probably irrelevant but functions like select() are often masked by several packages.

For example, the tidyverse has dplyr::select() which is often masked by the AnnotationDbi packages, so I always do dplyr::select() to avoid any conflicts. Same with functions such as cpm() which are used by packages in the single-cell world and something like edgeR.