conflict with patchwork

[monkeywithacupcake]

If user has patchwork loaded, list(area will lead to an unused arguments error.
Loading order does not matter.
Patchwork must be detached before calling formattable(df, list(area

[monkeywithacupcake]

I did not leave an example of this issue above, so here goes.

library(formattable)
formattable(mtcars, 
            list(area(col = c(hp, cyl)) ~ normalize_bar("pink", 0.2)
                 )
            )
# works fine

library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)
formattable(mtcars, 
            list(area(col = c(hp, cyl)) ~ normalize_bar("pink", 0.2)
            )
)
# Error in area(col = c(hp, cyl)) : unused argument (col = c(hp, cyl))

detach("package:patchwork", unload=TRUE)
formattable(mtcars, 
            list(area(col = c(hp, cyl)) ~ normalize_bar("pink", 0.2)
            )
)
# works fine

Note that if we force the area to use formattable, it works.

library(ggplot2)
library(patchwork)
library(formattable)
formattable(mtcars, 
            list(formattable::area(col = c(hp, cyl)) ~ normalize_bar("pink", 0.2)
            )
)
# works fine

[monkeywithacupcake]

since, as far as I can tell, using the package::function approach is the right thing for namespace conflicts, I'll close it. I hope this helps someone getting the same error in future.

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