How can I prevent a library from masking functions

Question

A typical situation is the following:

library(dplyr)
library(xgboost)

When I import the library xgboost, the function slice<

Answer 1

You can also now use the conflict_prefer() function from the conflicted package to specify which package's function should "win" and which should be masked when there are conflicting function names (details here). In your example, you would run

conflict_prefer("slice", "dplyr", "xgboost") 

right after loading your libraries. Then when you run slice, it will default to using dplyr::slice rather than xgboost::slice. Or you can simply run

conflict_prefer("slice", "dplyr")

if you want to give dplyr::slice precedence over all other packages' slice functions.