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jmc
2009 Jan 27
2
Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)
...elopment or
revision, rather than having users encounter ambiguous method selection
later on. In that spirit, ambiguous method selection is no longer a
warning, just a message.
The new mechanism for class ordering and method selection is described
in a draft paper at http://stat.stanford.edu/~jmc4/classInheritance.pdf
(later likely to be part of a submission to the R Journal).
John
2009 Apr 26
2
Some extensions to class inheritance and method selection
...al
problem with defining S3 methods for other S4 classes (namely, that S4
inheritance was not recognized) has been fixed, to the extent possible.
See ?Methods (especially the section on S3 methods). For details (there
are quite a few) see the paper referenced there,
http://stat.stanford.edu/~jmc4/classInheritance.pdf
Since these changes arguably fix design flaws, I would like to see them
in 2.9.1, so please test them out. For the moment, they are only in the
r-devel version.
There can be changes to current behavior. For example, I found one
regression test for S4 methods that only wo...