Testing results for Bert's suggestion...
I tested this with a different -- much smaller -- package: Put the S3method()
construct in NAMESPACE but the generic package is not mentioned at all in any
DESCRIPTION field. I built the package and checked it --as-cran. Interesting
results:
* Calling
Thanks, Bert.
This looks potentially useful as an alternative to the way I currently
dynamically register the method. It does seem to require that 'pkg' must
actually be installed on the system in order to work, and that pkg would have
to be listed in Import. I'd rather not force users to inst
Dirk,
This sounds familiar: in package 'bit' for
bit | bitwhich
R did neither S3-dispatch to "|.bit" nor to "|.bitwhich" but nonsensically to
the default method.
It took me a while to reverse my class thinking enough to realize that I could
get control by forcing dispatch to a common clas
