>>>>> Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu>
>>>>> on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:15:12 +0100 (CET) writes:
> Full_Name: Ross Boylan
> Version: 2.10.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (198.144.201.14)
> Some of the help for setGeneric seems to have been garbled. In the
section
> "Basic Use", 5th paragraph (where the example counts as a single line 3rd
> paragraph) it says
> <quote>
> Note that calling 'setGeneric()' in this form is not strictly
> necessary before calling 'setMethod()' for the same function. If
> the function specified in the call to 'setMethod' is not generic,
> 'setMethod' will execute the call to 'setGeneric' itself.
> Declaring explicitly that you want the function to be generic can
> be considered better programming style; the only difference in the
> result, however, is that not doing so produces a You cannot (and
> never need to) create an explicit generic version of the primitive
> functions in the base package.
> <quote>
> The stuff after the semi-colon of the final sentence is garbled, or at
least
> unparseable by me. Probably something got deleted by mistake.
That's very peculiar.
The corresponding methods/man/setGeneric.Rd file has not been
changed in a while,
but I don't see your problem.
> This is with ESS 5.7.1, Emacs 23.1.1.
exactly same versions here, but not your problem.
What happens if you start R in terminal and call
?setGeneric there ?
Regards,
Martin
> This is a somewhat newish problem; the help in R 2.7 does not have the
problem.
(( peculiar indeed ... ))
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