Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > R is designed to be flexible, and to let people change its behaviour. > Using that flexibility is what all users should do. Improving the user > experience is what front-end writers should do. I don't find it > inadvisable at all.
Well, that's a big whopping U-turn. Abby Spurdle wrote: > There's a work around. > You can redefine the print function, using something like: > print = function (...) base::print (...) Duncan Murdoch replied: > That's a really, really bad idea. If there are two generics named the > same, how are your users going to know which one they are getting when > they just say print(myobj)? https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-August/076581.html I can't see how redefining a generic function is any different from redefining a package installation function. And can't help but suspect, you're making an exception for RStudio... ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
