[Rd] library(methods): setMethod with "ANY" fails. (PR#1317)

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Great.

/Henrik


On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote:

> hb@maths.lth.se wrote:
> > 
> > Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
> > Version: R v1.4.1
> > OS: WinMe
> > Submission from: (NULL) (217.208.14.137)
> > 
> > Doing the following
> > 
> > library(methods)
> > setGeneric("foo", function(x) standardGeneric("foo"))
> > setMethod("foo", "ANY", function(x) cat(x))
> > 
> > fails with
> > 
> > Error in while (value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1 :
> >         missing value where logical needed
> > 
> > It looks like the line
> > 
> >   while (value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1
> > 
> > in the source for matchSignature() should be
> > 
> >   while (n > 0 && value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1
> > 
> > FYI: I tried my suggested modification at it seems to work.
> 
> Yes, thanks, that's correct.
> 
> It had been fixed in r-patched and r-devel, but too late for 1.4.1.
> 
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