R devel - Nov 2007 - dot in function name taken as S3 method by package check

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to update the locfit package so that it passes package check
in R 2.6.0.  However, the check seems to think some of the functions
with dot in the names are S3 methods (thus warns about the format of the
\usage{} part) when they are not.  Can anyone recommend a workaround for
this?  I tried reading R-exts, but couldn't find any hint.  I'd very
much appreciate any help!

Best,
Andy

Andy Liaw, PhD
Biometrics Research    PO Box 2000 RY33-300
Merck Research Labs        Rahway, NJ 07065
andy_liaw(a)merck.com          732-594-0820



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On 05/11/2007 3:48 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to update the locfit package so that it passes package check
> in R 2.6.0.  However, the check seems to think some of the functions
> with dot in the names are S3 methods (thus warns about the format of the
> \usage{} part) when they are not.  Can anyone recommend a workaround for
> this?  I tried reading R-exts, but couldn't find any hint.  I'd
very
> much appreciate any help!
I think you need a NAMESPACE file.  That's where you declare whether 
things are S3 methods or not.  Without a NAMESPACE, a function like 
locfit.raw could act as the locfit method for raw objects, if someone 
ever declared a locfit generic function.  Probably not what was intended.

Duncan Murdoch