... bumping this in the hopes that someone has an answer ...
On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 10:35 -0600, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> I'm preparing a new release of PerformanceAnalytics, and as usual
> this brings the host of CRAN checks.
>
> I get this note:
>
> * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... NOTE
> Found the following apparent S3 methods exported but not registered:
> mean.LCL mean.UCL mean.geometric mean.stderr
> See section 'Registering S3 methods' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
> manual.
>
> these are not S3 methods for 'mean', but rather helper functions that
> do other things related to means.
>
> These functions have been in the package for over a decade, are used
> in
> coursework at a number of universities, and we assume are in user
> code.
> So it seems that changing them would be disruptive.
>
> Now, all that said, what to do about it?
>
> We could register them as S3method{} , and I think calling them
> explicitly will still work, though this seems inelegant.
>
> I can't find any way to tell R that these *aren't* S3 methods ...
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
>
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