On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > I suspect the problem could be classified as bug in methods which doesn't > behave correctly if not attached. I didn't look into details, but there used > to be a technical problem in R C API where you could not pass the right > environments to make that work (that bit me when I tried to use S4 a while > ago), but I think that has been solved, so conceptually I think this is a bug > that could be fixed. This sounds like something that should be possible to > fix - even if it means fixing something in R to make it happen. Working > around it in hacky ways mentioned here doesn't solve the underlying problem.
I agree that the best solution would for methods to work properly even when not attached. I suspect that many people would be appreciative it if this issue were fixed and they didn't have to resort to these hacks and workarounds. -Winston ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
