I ran into some very irritating behaviour I don't understand. Let me illustrate with the package gdata() and the function print.object_size() :
> print(object.size(iris),units='Kb') 6.3 Kb > getAnywhere(print.object_size) A single object matching ‘print.object_size’ was found It was found in the following places registered S3 method for print from namespace utils namespace:utils with value ... All is well. So now I load gdata > require(gdata) Loading required package: gdata ... The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:utils’: object.size OK, this is what I would expect: > print(object.size(iris),units='Kb') [1] 6424 > getAnywhere(print.object_size) 2 differing objects matching ‘print.object_size’ were found in the following places registered S3 method for print from namespace utils namespace:gdata namespace:utils Use [] to view one of them Now I detach gdata again > detach(package:gdata) But the function print.object_size is still the default for object_size objects! > print(object.size(iris),units='Kb') [1] 6424 And it can still be found as well: > getAnywhere(print.object_size) 2 differing objects matching ‘print.object_size’ were found in the following places registered S3 method for print from namespace utils namespace:gdata namespace:utils Use [] to view one of them Am I missing something? Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bio-Informatics tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel