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Wolfgang Huber
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I wanted to highlight a recent1 change in the dplyr package that is
likely to break a lot of people's existing code. That package now exports2 a
function named exprs, which masks a function of the same name
from the Biobase package. The latter tends to be used frequently in
conjunction with ExpressionSet objects.
This may lead to obscure error messages. I am not sure whether a sane remedy
exists.
1 https://github.com/tidyverse/dplyr/blob/master/NEWS.md -- dplyr 0.7.5 (2018-04-14)
2 More precisely, re-exports it from the rlang package
I end up by assigning exprs specifically to Biobase::exprs and place it at the beginning of the code.
exprs=Biobase::exprs
The conflicted package forces one to resolve conflicts, and might be a 'best practice'.