R: Masked Functions [duplicate]

Question

In the stats package, there is a highly useful function called reorder(). In the gdata package, there is also a function called reorder().

How do I force reorder() from stats, not to be overwritten when loading the gdata package? Or, is there a way to reference which reorder() you want to use?

Answer 1

Use stats::reorder() to reference the version in stats.

Answer 2

From the Examples section of ?library:

 ## if you want to mask as little as possible, use
 library(mypkg, pos = "package:base")