Charles Berry pointed out an error in my reasoning. In the current survival I
forgot the
S3method line for length in the NAMESPACE file, so the behavior is really not
new.
Nonetheless it remains surprising and non-intuitive. Why does model.response
sometimes
attach spurious names, when th
I am getting some unexplained changes in the latest version of survival, and
finally
traced it down to this: model.response acts differently for Surv objects.
Here is a closed form example using a made up class Durv = diagnose survival.
I tracked
it down by removing methods one by one from Su
