Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Seth Falcon
"Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it's more complicated than this. First of all, is it > mandatory for a package to be explicit about 'methods'? Second, there > are many packages that imports 'methods' implicitly via dependency of > other S4 packages, .e.g see many Biocondu

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/30/2006 1:35 PM, John Chambers wrote: > Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> [Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] >> >> Thank you for this. >> >>> The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 >>> methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new >>> version. >> >> Is

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On 8/30/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > > > [Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] > > > > Thank you for this. > > > > > The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 > > > methods and classes need to be reinstalled fro

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread John Chambers
Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > [Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] > > Thank you for this. > >> The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 >> methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new >> version. > > Is there an easy way to detect if a package is using S4

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > [Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] > > Thank you for this. > > > The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 > > methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new > > version. > > Is there an easy way to dete

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Seth Falcon
"Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] I'll answer here for now. > Is there an easy way to detect if a package is using S4 or not? If > so, I could scan my already installed libraries and call > install.packages() on its S4 subset of packages. The alt

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread John Chambers
John Chambers wrote: > A revision of r-devel 2.4.0 is being committed today with changes to > method and class management. > > The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 > methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new > version. > A footnote on t

Re: [Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
[Cross-posting to BioC-devel to] Thank you for this. > The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 > methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new > version. Is there an easy way to detect if a package is using S4 or not? If so, I could scan my alre

[Rd] S4 Methods dispatch

2006-08-30 Thread John Chambers
A revision of r-devel 2.4.0 is being committed today with changes to method and class management. The changes are internal but extensive. All packages that use S4 methods and classes need to be reinstalled from source to use the new version. The main effects are to speed up method caching and