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R: Masked Functions

I am using the packages moments and fUnitRoots. Both of them have a function called “kurtosis” (to be more precise, the package fUnitRoots calls the package timeDate which also has the function “kurtosis”). They give very different results, because their formulas is slightly different. I want to use the function skewness from the library moments, but if the two libraries are loaded, the function used is the one from fUnitRoots.

How can I specify from which library I want the given function to be used, without unloading one of the libraries?

Answer 1

Use the :: operator. The syntax is package::name. So it would be moments::kurtosis.