From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Wed May 23 21:33:02 2001
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:33:02 -0400
Subject: RE^2: [Rd] New generic functions in "R base" {was `truncate'}
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Message-ID: <3B0C1E7E.3DEECF5F@bank-banque-canada.ca>

>Actually, this illustrates a problem and raises another issue.  As it
turns
>out, I'm not the only one to have (unnecessarily) re-implemented the
>features of confint() because it didn't occur to me to look in MASS for
it.
>I'm sure that others have had the same thing happen.

Some search/browse capability sure would be nice and I think this
problem is going to get worse with the elimination of function.html in R
1.3.0.  Perhaps there is a possibility of putting a giant index of all
functions in all packages on CRAN?

>Shouldn't such generally useful functions get moved into base or some
>other package that is on the default search path?

The potential for name conflicts seems rather severe with this approach.

Paul Gilbert


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RE^2: [Rd] New generic functions in "R base" {was `truncate'}
Paul Gilbert