On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 16:28 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: > Dear List, > > I have the following function:
Thanks to Tony Plate (and his simple example - message to self: "follow the posting guide's advice next time!!!"), I realised that deparse (substitute( )) was taking place *after* I had modified x and y in situations where some columns contained all zero values. Moving the offending lines above the modifying if() statements solves the problem. So - not a problem with method dispatch at all, except perhaps within my brain just now... All the best, Gav -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel