R library(bear) and library(reshape2) conflict in melt -

i have following issue when using bear package in r:

origdata.wide <- read.table(header=t, text='  subject sex control cond1 cond2    1   m     7.9  12.3  10.7    2   f     6.3  10.6  11.1    3   f     9.5  13.1  13.8    4   m    11.5  13.4  12.9 ') 

in case use reshape2 command works fine , can use melt (example taken r cookbook).

 library(reshape2)  melt(origdata.wide, id.vars=c("subject","sex"), variable.name='condition') 

but later need use summaryse function, found out contained in bear. problem when load bear variable.name parameter not have effect cannot define table defined earlier. think bear overwrites functions. there way around problem?

r inform if overwritten. example:

the following objects masked ‘package:plyr’:  rename, round_any 

it seems bear loads reshape package have different arguments functions:

the following objects masked ‘package:reshape’:  colsplit, melt, recast 

you can solve problem reloading manually, , being careful in future load packages in order:

 unloadnamespace('bear')  unloadnamespace('reshape2')  library(bear)  library(reshape2) 

if see errors of form

 error in unloadnamespace("reshape2") :    namespace ‘reshape2’ imported ‘ggplot2’ cannot unloaded 

then unloadnamespace packages , reload them well. in ~/.rprofile file, can place

 library(bear)  library(reshape2) 

so new r sessions load correctly in future.