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...ried 'cacheMetaData(1)' and a number of different variants of 'cacheGenericsMetaData', on the possibility there is a caching issue. but i still can't sort it out. also one general question: does it really matter what's in the body of the function definition in a 'setGroupGeneric' call? the actual group function definition is always overwritten by a message to the effect the function should not be called directly. __ setGroupGeneric("Foo", function(x) standardGeneric("Foo")) setGroupGeneric("Foo2", function(x, y) standardGeneric(&quot...

Hi, There seems to be a problem with setGroupGeneric() from package 'methods'. The symptoms are somewhat erratic, in the sense that small changes may lead to any of the following behaviours. 1.Package works without problems on Windows and installs on Linux but gives error when loaded with library(). 2.Package installs on both systems and gi...

...oup are never actual generic functions (for reasons of efficiency), there was no easy way to turn method dispatch on, and the callGeneric function was unable to find the generic definition. It is still necessary to turn method dispatch on in this case (see ?setGeneric) by calling something like: setGroupGeneric("Arith") This requirement may be dropped later, depending on experience. -- 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://...