From Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com  Sun Jan  9 00:05:43 2005
From: Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com (McGehee, Robert)
Date: Sun Jan  9 00:06:37 2005
Subject: [Rd] new("call") problem
Message-ID: <67DCA285A2D7754280D3B8E88EB5480206741E02@MSGBOSCLB2WIN.DMN1.FMR.COM>

The below looks like the show method has trouble with the default call
object (or that there is no default call object). Not sure if this is a
bug, design problem, or a difficulty on my part using and extending the
call class, but it has caused difficulty for when I want to extend the
call class into other S4 classes.

> new("call")
Error in print("<undef>"()) : couldn't find function "<undef>"

This error pops up when I show an object with an empty call slot.
Error in show("<undef>"()) : Unable to find the argument "object" in
selecting a method for function "show"

I'll leave it up to the developers to designate this as a bug or not,
but I would certainly prefer that new() and show() never reports errors
when an empty object is passed as an argument (of any class).

Best,
Robert

Robert McGehee
Geode Capital Management, LLC
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[Rd] new("call") problem
McGehee, Robert