Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:04:37 -0400 writes: PaulG> Brian Ok, lets leave this for now. When does the PaulG> development cycle start for the next version that PaulG> would allow making a function generic? Almost immediately aft

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Brian Ok, lets leave this for now. When does the development cycle start for the next version that would allow making a function generic? Paul Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: >On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: > > > >>Brian >> >>It would help if I understood general principles. I thought o

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Gavin Simpson wrote: >On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:52 -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote: > > >>Brian >> >>It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would >>want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for >>making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics an

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Brian > > It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would > want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for > making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are > useful will not be necessary.

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:52 -0400, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Brian > > It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would > want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for > making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are > useful will

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Paul Gilbert
Brian It would help if I understood general principles. I thought one would want a case for NOT making functions generic, rather than a case for making them generic. Hopefully a case for why generics and methods are useful will not be necessary. The situation with loadings() is that I construc

Re: [Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Paul Gilbert wrote (in two separate messages) > Could loadings() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? > Could acf() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? I think it is too late in the process for this (and especially for acf). In particular, it could have knock-on consequenc

[Rd] loadings() generic in R alpha

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Gilbert
Could loadings() in R-2.2.0 please be made generic? Thanks, Paul Gilbert __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel