>>>>> "RossB" == Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu>
>>>>> on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:42:22 -0800 writes:
RossB> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:24 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> >>>>> 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.
RossB> The help from R launched directly from the R shortcut on my desktop
RossB> looks fine, in both 2.10 and 2.8.
RossB> I closed all my emacs sessions and restarted, but ?setGeneric
produces
RossB> the same garbled text. I also tried telling ESS to use a different
RossB> working directory when launching R; it didn't help.
RossB> The last sentence of this paragraph is also garbled:
RossB> <quote>
RossB> The description above is the effect when the package that owns the
RossB> non-generic function has not created an implicit generic version.
RossB> Otherwise, it is this implicit generic function that is us_same_
RossB> version of the generic function will be created each time.
RossB> </quote>
RossB> Weird.
Very weird, indeed!
However, in any case, this is a bug of your version / installation of
[Emacs + ESS]
and not of R.
So the topic should move to the
ESS-help list ess-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
and you could possibly additionally also send an "official Ess bug report":
[iESS] emacs-menu, last line: "Send bug report"
RossB> P.S. http://bugs.r-project.org was extremely sluggish, even timing
out,
RossB> both yesterday and today for me.
Maybe the world climate is a bit more important in Copenhagen,
at the moment, than R's bugs server? ;-)
{{bugs.r-project.org *is* indeed located there}}
Thanks for the report, but as we've established, the bug is not
with R, really, but with your installation/version of the R <->
Emacs interface.
Regards,
Martin
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