[Rd] isGeneric() can return an error

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi,

I wonder if this is a feature or a bug:

   > isGeneric("&&")
   Error in genericForPrimitive(f) :
     methods may not be defined for primitive function ‘&&’ in this 
version of R
   > isGeneric(":")
   Error in genericForPrimitive(f) :
     methods may not be defined for primitive function ‘:’ in this 
version of R

According to the man page:

      ‘isGeneric’: Is there a function named ‘f’, and if so, is it a
           generic?

So it sounds like it should be a YES or NO answer.

In any case the error message is confusing: it suggests that I'm trying
to define methods for "&&", but I'm not.

This is with R 2.13, R 2.14 and R 2.15.0 alpha.

Thanks,
H.

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Hervé Pagès

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