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2009 Jan 27
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Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)
A recently committed revison of R-devel (47740) has introduced a new mechanism for ordering superclasses consistently, with related changes for selecting inherited methods. As part of the process, a function testInheritedMethods has been introduced that examines method selection for the relevant subclasses and reports ambiguities. Maintainers of packages that have methods involving multiple arguments are encouraged to run testInheritedMethods for the relevant generic functions (e.g., the binary operators). The new m...