[Rd] Solved and Question: Problem with S3 method dispatch and NAMESPACE

[peter dalgaard]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 15:59 , Frank Harrell wrote:

> I found that package quantreg has created a new generic for latex() [I wish
> it hadn't; this has been a generic in Hmisc for almost 2 decades].  When I
> require(quantreg) after loading rms, latex(anova.rms object) dispatches
> latex.default, but everything is fine if I don't load quantreg.  rms has
> import(Hmisc) in NAMESPACE and is loaded before quantreg, hence the
> conflict.  How do I make the generic from Hmisc take precedence?


library(quantreg, pos=x) with suitably large x is one idea.

> Thanks
> Frank
> 
> Frank Harrell wrote
>> I have updated the rms package to extensively use NAMESPACE.  I cannot get
>> certain S3 methods to dispatch.  For example I have in NAMESPACE
>> 
>> S3method(anova, rms)
>> S3method(latex, anova.rms)
>> 
>> anova.rms produces an object of class "anova.rms" and there is a
>> latex.anova.rms function in rms.  But when I do latex(anova(fit)) I get an
>> invocation of latex.default.
>> 
>> I have tried using "anova.rms" and `anova.rms` in S3method() to no avail.
>> 
>> Any help appreciated.  I'm using R 2.15.3
>> Frank
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