On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 07:06 -0700, Martin Morgan wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 04:44 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > This may be related to this email thread initiated by Ben Bolker last
> > month: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-July/061630.html
> >
> > In answering this Question on StackOverflow
> > http://stackoverflow.com/q/7195628/429846 I noticed that `methods()` was
> > not listing some S3 methods for `plot()` provided by the mgcv package.
>
> Hi Gavin --
>
> In the mgcv NAMESPACE, the methods is not registered with S3method
> (which would have made it appear with a *) and is not export'ed; the
> author of the package apparently intends that it be strictly internal to
> the package. Dispatch works within the package name space, but not
> outside, e.g., a=list; class(a) = "mgcv.smooth"; plot(a) ends up at
> plot.default.
Thanks for the explanation Martin. This strikes me as being somewhat
suboptimal and not conducive to studying and understanding code. Now
that I am aware of the distinction I won't be surprised when methods
don't show up.
Cheers
G
> > At the time I wanted to check the development version of R as I recalled
> > Uwe mentioning that `plot.function` was listed by `methods()` there but
> > not in R2.13.x. I have now compiled the development version on two
>
> It looks like the cog that has changed between release and devel is the
> addition of export(plot.function) and S3method(plot, "function") to the
> NAMESPACE of graphics.
>
> Martin
>
> > Fedora installations and certain plot methods are still not being
> > listed. Details of the exact revision of R Devel are shown at the end of
> > this email.
> >
> > As an example, consider:
> >
> >> require(mgcv)
> > Loading required package: mgcv
> > This is mgcv 1.7-6. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
> >> methods("plot")
> > [1] plot.acf* plot.ACF* plot.augPred*
> > [4] plot.compareFits* plot.data.frame* plot.decomposed.ts*
> > [7] plot.default plot.dendrogram* plot.density
> > [10] plot.ecdf plot.factor* plot.formula*
> > [13] plot.function plot.gam plot.gls*
> > [16] plot.hclust* plot.histogram* plot.HoltWinters*
> > [19] plot.intervals.lmList* plot.isoreg* plot.lm
> > [22] plot.lme* plot.lmList* plot.medpolish*
> > [25] plot.mlm plot.nffGroupedData* plot.nfnGroupedData*
> > [28] plot.nls* plot.nmGroupedData* plot.pdMat*
> > [31] plot.ppr* plot.prcomp* plot.princomp*
> > [34] plot.profile.nls* plot.ranef.lme* plot.ranef.lmList*
> > [37] plot.shingle* plot.simulate.lme* plot.spec
> > [40] plot.stepfun plot.stl* plot.table*
> > [43] plot.trellis* plot.ts plot.tskernel*
> > [46] plot.TukeyHSD plot.Variogram*
> >
> > Non-visible functions are asterisked
> >
> >> pmeth<- methods("plot")
> >> grep("plot.mgcv.smooth", pmeth)
> > integer(0)
> >> getS3method("plot", "mgcv.smooth")
> > Error in getS3method("plot", "mgcv.smooth") :
> > S3 method 'plot.mgcv.smooth' not found
> >> pfun<- getAnywhere("plot.mgcv.smooth")
> >> str(pfun)
> > List of 5
> > $ name : chr "plot.mgcv.smooth"
> > $ objs :List of 1
> > ..$ :function (x, P = NULL, data = NULL, label = "", se1.mult = 1,
> > se2.mult = 2, partial.resids = FALSE, rug = TRUE, se = TRUE,
> > scale = -1, n = 100, n2 = 40, pers = FALSE, theta = 30, phi = 30,
> > jit = FALSE, xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL, main = NULL, ylim = NULL,
> > xlim = NULL, too.far = 0.1, shade = FALSE, shade.col = "gray80",
> > shift = 0, trans = I, by.resids = FALSE, scheme = NULL, ...)
> > $ where : chr "namespace:mgcv"
> > $ visible: logi FALSE
> > $ dups : logi FALSE
> > - attr(*, "class")= chr "getAnywhere"
> >
> > Both `methods()` and `getS3method()` don't list/find this method, but
> > the function exists in the mgcv name space and this method will be used
> > via R's S3 dispatch system in `plot.gam()`.
> >
> > Shouldn't this method be returned by either `methods()` or
> > `getS3method()`?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R Under development (unstable) (2011-08-26 r56801)
> > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> > [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
> > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
> > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
> > base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] mgcv_1.7-6
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] grid_2.14.0 lattice_0.19-33 Matrix_0.9996875-3
> > nlme_3.1-102
> > [5] tools_2.14.0
>
>
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