[Rd] checking S3 generic/method consistency

Kurt Hornik Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at
Sat Oct 15 21:44:53 CEST 2005


>>>>> Paul Gilbert writes:

> In R-2.2.0,  how does   "checking S3 generic/method consistency"  
> determine which generic to check against when there are two?  I have a 
> generic "simulate" in dse1 and there is a new generic "simulate" in 
> stats, and I don't seem to be able to get  my simulate methods to be 
> checked consistently against one or the other. Is this deteremined by 
> Depends in the DESCRIPTION file, the NAMESPACE, or something else?

It is attempted to use the generic "as seen from the package".
Actually, I made a code change to get things right for dse ...

-k



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