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Asked: 2026-06-13T14:26:03+00:00

I have a package that uses the trim() function in the gdata package. I

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I have a package that uses the trim() function in the gdata package. I literally use nothing else from the package and (as some of you may have seen) it overwrites some functionality of base R that I need.

Is there a way to load only one function rather than the whole package?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sure. Just use an importFrom directive in your NAMESPACE file (as described here in R-exts).

    importFrom(gdata, trim)

    OP EDIT: As of R 3.2.0 there’s now a base function: trimws()

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