On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:24 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu> > >>>>> on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:15:12 +0100 (CET) writes: > > > Full_Name: Ross Boylan > > Version: 2.10.0 > > OS: Windows XP > > Submission from: (NULL) (198.144.201.14) > > > > Some of the help for setGeneric seems to have been garbled. In the > section > > "Basic Use", 5th paragraph (where the example counts as a single line > 3rd > > paragraph) it says > > <quote> > > Note that calling 'setGeneric()' in this form is not strictly > > necessary before calling 'setMethod()' for the same function. If > > the function specified in the call to 'setMethod' is not generic, > > 'setMethod' will execute the call to 'setGeneric' itself. > > Declaring explicitly that you want the function to be generic can > > be considered better programming style; the only difference in the > > result, however, is that not doing so produces a You cannot (and > > never need to) create an explicit generic version of the primitive > > functions in the base package. > > <quote> > > > The stuff after the semi-colon of the final sentence is garbled, or at > least > > unparseable by me. Probably something got deleted by mistake. > > That's very peculiar. > > The corresponding methods/man/setGeneric.Rd file has not been > changed in a while, > but I don't see your problem.
The help from R launched directly from the R shortcut on my desktop looks fine, in both 2.10 and 2.8. I closed all my emacs sessions and restarted, but ?setGeneric produces the same garbled text. I also tried telling ESS to use a different working directory when launching R; it didn't help. The last sentence of this paragraph is also garbled: <quote> The description above is the effect when the package that owns the non-generic function has not created an implicit generic version. Otherwise, it is this implicit generic function that is us_same_ version of the generic function will be created each time. </quote> Weird. P.S. http://bugs.r-project.org was extremely sluggish, even timing out, both yesterday and today for me. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel