Re: [Rd] Some extensions to class inheritance and method selection

2009-04-29 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stavros Macrakis wrote: > These look like important improvements. As a relative newcomer to the R > community, I'm not sure I understand what the procedures are for such > changes. > > In particular, does the fact that the changes were committed to R-devel mean > that the changes have already been

Re: [Rd] Some extensions to class inheritance and method selection

2009-04-29 Thread John Chambers
Right, these warnings correctly go away with the changes currently in r-devel. As I said in my mail, I do want to port them to 2.9.1 and was waiting for a little more testing. (Also, I'm about to move back to the East Coast for the summer, and will be out of touch for a few days next week. Se

Re: [Rd] Some extensions to class inheritance and method selection

2009-04-29 Thread Stavros Macrakis
These look like important improvements. As a relative newcomer to the R community, I'm not sure I understand what the procedures are for such changes. In particular, does the fact that the changes were committed to R-devel mean that the changes have already been reviewed and approved by R Core?

Re: [Rd] Some extensions to class inheritance and method selection

2009-04-29 Thread Roger Bivand
In released 2.9.0, we have been seeing warnings when installing sp, for example: Warning in .checkS3forClass(class...@classname, where, names(exts)) : Some of the superclasses in the definition of class "SpatialPoints" have apparent S3 methods. DANGER: the new class will not inherit these meth