Re: [Rd] Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)

2009-01-31 Thread John Chambers
The revisions below have been re-committed (r47803), and appear to be compatible with the current Matrix package ('0.999375-19'). Thanks to Martin Maechler for help with Matrix. John Chambers wrote: A recently committed revison of R-devel (47740) has introduced a new mechanism for ordering su

Re: [Rd] Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)

2009-01-27 Thread John Chambers
These changes have been reverted (temporarily, I strongly hope) to sort out some incompatibilities with the Matrix recommended package. They will be available on a branch for experimentation, once I sort out how to work with svn branches. John John Chambers wrote: A recently committed reviso

[Rd] Inherited Methods in r-devel (for package maintainers mainly)

2009-01-26 Thread John Chambers
A recently committed revison of R-devel (47740) has introduced a new mechanism for ordering superclasses consistently, with related changes for selecting inherited methods. As part of the process, a function testInheritedMethods has been introduced that examines method selection for the relev