Re: [R-pkg-devel] Redefinition of generic for plot function breaks plot.formula

2015-09-01 Thread Benjamin Hofner
else here knows what is going on? If this isn't a problem in R, it looks like it would be easier all round to follow Prof. Ripley's other advice/option and add a new class to data.frame objects and provide a method for that new class... HTH G On 1 September 2015 at 07:53, Benjamin Hofner

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Redefinition of generic for plot function breaks plot.formula

2015-09-01 Thread Benjamin Hofner
Why don't you just create your own function? Hadley On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Benjamin Hofner mailto:benjamin.hof...@fau.de>> wrote: > Dear Gavin, > > unfortunately, I cannot overwrite plot.data.frame only. If I do this I > get the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Redefinition of generic for plot function breaks plot.formula

2015-09-01 Thread Benjamin Hofner
tain functionality. HTH G On 31 August 2015 at 04:03, Benjamin Hofner mailto:benjamin.hof...@fau.de>> wrote: Dear all, CRAN policies do not allow that single methods (for generic functions) which are defined in base or recommended packages are replaced. They advice package aut

[R-pkg-devel] Redefinition of generic for plot function breaks plot.formula

2015-08-31 Thread Benjamin Hofner
hlighting and code to reproduce the problem please see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32246361/redefinition-of-generic-for-plot-function-breaks-plot-formula Best, Benjamin -- ** Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin H

[R-pkg-devel] Strange timings reported from R CMD check

2015-08-18 Thread Benjamin Hofner
Dear all, When we prepared a release candidate form package mboost (see https://github.com/hofnerb/mboost/tree/master/pkg/mboostPatch for the code) we we found a strange issue regarding the timings. When running R CMD check --as-cran on the package mboost we found the following timings: Lin