There is a new installation of the methods package on r-devel. Two main changes: 1. generic functions are now an actual class (which extends "function"). 2. method definitions are specific to the package associated with the generic function, as well as with the name of the generic. The second change will help methods fit in with name spaces and should get over problems with conflicting generic function names. You will have to re-install any of your own packages from source, if you have been using the result of INSTALL --save (because the meta-object names now include the package, for one reason). The symptom that you need to do that is a warning about "methods object ... has no package name" when you attach your package. Otherwise there should be no change needed for current applications. John -- John M. Chambers jmc@bell-labs.com Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies office: (908)582-2681 700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-282 fax: (908)582-3340 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 web: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~jmc -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._