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#  On masking of and by other functions in package "distrEx"       
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Attention:

*** intentional masking: ***

To be able to use the same symbol for (theoretical) distributional
arguments as for (empirical) data arguments, we intentionally mask
the following functions --- however all these functions may still
be used in exactly the same way as before masking:

+var()    (package "stats")
+sd()     (package "stats")
+median() (package "stats")
+mad()    (package "stats")
+IQR()    (package "stats")

+skewness() (package "e1071")
+kurtosis() (package "e1071")

In the last cases, code was simply inserted from package "e1071"
in order to avoid a corresponding "Depends" entry in the "DESCRIPTION" 
file of package "distrEx" with the entailed necessity to install 
package "e1071".

*** non-intentional masking: ***

However, if any of the packages "e1071", "moments", or "fBasics" is to 
be used together with package "distrEx", the latter must be attached 
/after/ any of the first mentioned. 

Otherwise kurtosis() and skewness(), defined as methods in package 
"distrEx", will get masked.

To re-mask, you may use 

  kurtosis <- distrEx::kurtosis
  skewness <- distrEx::skewness