Thank you very much for your reply. You confirm what I suppose. Can you give me a reference of that you wrote? I need it for a report.
Thanks again. PS: sorry Uwe for the previous reply, not to the list. 2011/10/18 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > On 18.10.2011 10:37, Nicola Sturaro Sommacal wrote: > >> Hello everybody. >> >> My issue arise when I build a package with my functions. This package is >> for >> personal purposes only and it will not submitted to CRAN. >> >> Anyway, this may be an opportunity for myself to clear the S3 methods >> concept. I read the R manual and some books about R programming but they >> are >> usually S4 oriented. >> >> I call a function plot.days(). When I check the package I obtain some >> inconsistencies because this function is a method of the plot() function >> and >> it requires at least the same arguments. >> >> Since an object call days doesn't exist, I am not interested to access my >> function using plot() but I would like to name it plot.days(). >> >> Is there anyway to declare that my plot.days() function is not a method >> for >> the plot() function? >> >> I hope the question is clear, despite methods are a new world for me. >> > > > The S3 method definition happens only by the name of the method: > "NameOfTheGeneric.Class". Hence plot.days is by definition a method for the > "plot" generic for objects of class "days". If you want a function that is > not such a method, rename it. plot_days will do, for example. > > Uwe Ligges > > > > Thank you very much. >> >> Regards, >> Nicola >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** >> posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
