[Rd] Namespace problem

[gb]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:26:45PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "GB" == Göran Broström <gb at stat.umu.se>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:00:57 +0200 writes:
> 
>     GB> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:43:44AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
>     >> >>>>> "GB" == Göran Broström <gb at stat.umu.se>
>     >> >>>>>     on Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:51:49 +0200 writes:
> 

> We do encourage not using "." for new function names because of
> the reason above, but it's definitely not a requirement.
> In the case where  'foo'  is an S3 generic function name,
> we however recommend quite strongly not to use 
>    'foo.bar'
> as function name since it looks "too much" like an S3 method.
> Is this the case for you?

No.

> 
>     GB> But how is this problem connected to using C/Fortran code?
> 
> only via "namespace magic".

Yes, magic is the word: I got 'R CMD check' and NAMESPACE working by
cleaning 'R' from '*.R~' files and 'src' from old '.o' files and an old
'eha.so' (from 1.x.x something)!  

Another thought: Since I really haven't used S3 methods so far, should I go
for S4 methods directly?

Göran
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