They're stabilizing. All changes are internal and addressing bugs; not
user-facing.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:34 PM Robert Harlow wrote:
>
> Okay - that makes sense and thanks for looking into this! As an aside, from
> R-devel's perspective would you say methods are stabilizing again or do you
Okay - that makes sense and thanks for looking into this! As an aside, from
R-devel's perspective would you say methods are stabilizing again or do you
foresee a lot of changes coming in the 4.* series?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:39 PM Michael Lawrence via R-devel <
r-devel@r-project.org> wrote:
>
This seems to work as expected (returning "hi!") in R-devel, but there
have been so many destabilizing changes to methods that it would be
tough to port this to release. Probably should just wait for 4.0.
Michael
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
> Thanks, I'll look into
Thanks, I'll look into it.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:32 AM Ezra Tucker wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> This looks like a bug to me (tested in R 3.6.2 on Windows), f(new("a"))
> should return "hi!". I'll add that this DOES work properly in 3.6.1
> which leads me to suspect this could be due to the subtl
Hi Robert,
This looks like a bug to me (tested in R 3.6.2 on Windows), f(new("a"))
should return "hi!". I'll add that this DOES work properly in 3.6.1
which leads me to suspect this could be due to the subtle change in the
way method dispatch was performed to fix a different bug, in 3.6.2. Can
I am trying to create a class union of class unions to facilitate method
dispatch. When I execute code in the global environment, everything acts as
expected, however when I put the same code in the context of a package,
selectMethod can no longer find the correct method. This first block below
put
