From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Sep 16 14:41:36 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 16 13:43:46 2003
Subject: [Rd] getGenerics is wrong in 1.8.0 alpha (PR#4184)
Message-ID: <200309161141.h8GBfaJH019092@pubhealth.ku.dk>

I have mentioned this several times, and it is still incorrect.  So I am 
submitting a formal bug report.

In 1.7.1 in a vanilla session

> getGenerics(2)
An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage":

Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops"  "Summary"
From:   "base"  "base"    "base"    "base"  "base" "base" "base"

Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-" "coerce"  "coerce<-" "initialize" "loadMethod"
From:   "methods"       "base"   "methods" "methods"  "methods"    "methods"

Object: "show"
From:   "methods"

In 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-16)

> getGenerics(2)
An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage":

Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops"  "Summary"
From:   "base"  "base"    "base"    "base"  "base" "base" "base"

Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-"  "coerce"  "coerce<-" "initialize"
From:   "methods"       "methods" "methods" "methods"  "methods"

Object: "loadMethod" "show"
From:   "methods"    "methods"

body<- is incorrectly attributed to "methods", although it originates in 
base (whereas Compare, Complex and Math2 do not occur in base).

-- 
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[Rd] getGenerics is wrong in 1.8.0 alpha (PR#4184)
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