Cannot find function after loading library R

Question

Im having some troubles with the startsWith function in R.

After an update of the library gdata that contains the function, this test script gives an error:

library(data.table)
library(gdata)

help.search("startsWith");

print(startsWith("test","t"));

I also tried to use gdata::startsWith("test","t") or gdata:::startsWith("test","t") but nothing chages.

The error I get is the following:

Error in get(name, envir = ns, inherits = FALSE) : 
  oggetto "startsWith" non trovato
Calls: print -> <Anonymous> -> :: -> getExportedValue -> get

While the search part finds the function startsWith, returning this message:

gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED.

gdata: read.xls support for 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files ENABLED.

Attaching package: ‘gdata’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:data.table’:

    first, last

The following object is masked from ‘package:stats’:

    nobs

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    object.size

Help files with alias or concept or title matching ‘startsWith’ using
fuzzy matching:


dplyr::reexports        Objects exported from other packages
  Aliases: starts_with
gdata::startsWith       Determine if a character string "starts with"
                        with the specified characters.
  Aliases: startsWith
tidyselect::select_helpers
                        Select helpers
  Aliases: starts_with


Type '?PKG::FOO' to inspect entries 'PKG::FOO', or 'TYPE?PKG::FOO' for
entries like 'PKG::FOO-TYPE'.

Do you have any suggestion on how to solve this issue? (I already tried to remove and install the library again).

Thank you in advance.