Re: [R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-02 Thread Martin Maechler
> Barry Rowlingson > on Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:23:46 + writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> I've found that it's a very bad idea to provide length or names >> methods for just this reason.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-02 Thread Hadley Wickham
I've found that it's a very bad idea to provide length or names methods for just this reason. Hadley On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Nathan Wendt wrote: > Hello, > > I have run into an issue while developing an R package. Specifically, my > issue relates to what happens

Re: [R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-01 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Nathan, Perhaps if you defined your "length" object as "nbm" (number of binary messages), it would not interfere with the default "length". Jim On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Georgi Boshnakov < georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > >I have run into an issue while developing