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Because it is one of the fundamental benefits of the operator, I thought it would be worth putting in a little bit that explains `::` can be used to prevent namespace conflicts. It seems reasonable, because I think novice R users could otherwise believe that using `conflicted` is the only way to work. But this is just a suggestion.
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Hey @joelnitta , as requested moving this (now pretty old, sorry!) PR from your fork to the base repo.
Because it is one of the fundamental benefits of the operator, I thought it would be worth putting in a little bit that explains
::can be used to prevent namespace conflicts. It seems reasonable, because I think novice R users could otherwise believe that usingconflictedis the only way to work. But this is just a suggestion.