[Rd] couldn't find function "setClass"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It's not been a valid assumption ever (or as long as I can recall).
The only thing you can assume in base.  We try to be careful in the R 
tarball, but things slip past.

BDR

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> > Did you make sure that you have
> > require(methods)
> > early in your R sources for the package?
> 
> No, and that was exactly the problem (although specifically I put the
> 'require(methods)' into the R_PROFILE.R file).  I was under the impression
> that methods was always loaded by default when R started up (and thus,
> many of the BioC packages no longer have an explicit 'require(methods)'
> call).  As I said, this is something relatively recent in R-devel, and
> wasn't necessary just a week ago ... I'm assuming it was an intended
> change tho. :)
> 
> Thanks
> -J
> 
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