On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 08:06 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > >> But aren't the methods compatible? If equality doesn't make a method >> compatible what does? >> > > Actually I guess that turns out to be the key (to why they work at the > command line but not in a package). At the command line they really _are_ > the same, e.g., .Internal(inspect("+.a")) has the same address as "+.b". > In the package they (e.g., badadd:::"+.a") have different addresses, I > suppose because S3method() acts on them independently. > > Thanks for the investigation. I wonder if there's some sort of workaround. > >> But unfortunately that doesn't work for S3 classes (even with >> setOldClass) so it doesn't help much unless we want to rewrite >> everything in S4 :/ >> > > rewrite? > Yes, the original question is the result of some issues that came up in ggplot2 development... -Winston [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel