[Rd] S3 dispatch does not work for generics defined inside an environment

[Taras Zakharko]

Hi Greg, 

That was my original plan as well, but managing and deploying dozens of little packages that are all under active development is a nightmare even with devtools. Just too much overhead, not to mention that coming up with names that would not have namespace conflicts was getting silly. 

In the end, I wrote a package that implements lightweight python-like modules for R and that has really improved my workflow. I hope to publish this package later this year after I have cleaned it up a bit. 

Thanks, 

Taras

> On 1 Jul 2021, at 05:55, Greg Minshall <minshall using umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Taras,
> 
>> P.S. If you are wondering what I am trying to achieve here — we have a
>> very large codebase and I am trying to use environments as a type of
>> “poor man’s namespaces” to organize code in a modular fashion. But of
>> course it’s all pointless if I can’t get the generics to work
>> reliably.
> 
> i'm not knowledgeable about S3.  but, a different way to try to
> modularize large code bases is to split them into separate packages.
> just in case you hadn't already thought about, and rejected, that idea.
> 
> cheers, Greg