From hadley at rice.edu  Sat Aug 27 20:02:56 2011
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:02:56 -0500
Subject: [Rd] S3 methods in default namespace
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>> Are there any plans for figuring out potential S3 methods and declaring
>> them
>> with S3method() in the automatic default NAMESPACE?
>
> There are no safe ways to do that.

So doesn't that break packages that use S3 but don't have a NAMESPACE?

Hadley

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[Rd] S3 methods in default namespace
Hadley Wickham