I don't know the answer to your question. However, here's a side issue that may be relevant.
Last year, I tried creating my own ecdf object, and redefined the print method for ecdf. It worked ok in the console, interactively. However, when I tried calling the method (with autoprinting) inside an Sweave document, the stats package method was used instead of my method. I never determined why this was happening. However, R check generated a warning later, so I renamed the classes and methods. Abs On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:57 AM William Dunlap via R-devel < r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > > In R-3.6.0 autoprinting was changed so that print methods for the storage > modes are not called when there is no explicit class attribute. E.g., > > % R-3.6.0 --vanilla --quiet > > print.function <- function(x, ...) { cat("Function with argument list "); > cat(sep="\n ", head(deparse(args(x)), -1)); invisible(x) } > > f <- function(x, ...) { sum( x * seq_along(x) ) } > > f > function(x, ...) { sum( x * seq_along(x) ) } > > print(f) > Function with argument list function (x, ...) > > Previous to R-3.6.0 autoprinting did call such methods > % R-3.5.3 --vanilla --quiet > > print.function <- function(x, ...) { cat("Function with argument list "); > cat(sep="\n ", head(deparse(args(x)), -1)); invisible(x) } > > f <- function(x, ...) { sum( x * seq_along(x) ) } > > f > Function with argument list function (x, ...) > > print(f) > Function with argument list function (x, ...) > > Was this intentional? > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel