From smyth at wehi.edu.au  Sat Jun  7 23:16:39 2003
From: smyth at wehi.edu.au (Gordon Smyth)
Date: Sat Jun  7 14:16:57 2003
Subject: [Rd] R CMD check: is it error to setMethod for class not currently
 defined?
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030607220218.00acc830@imaphost.wehi.edu.au>

Should R CMD check consider it an error to define a new method using 
setMethod for a class which is not currently defined? It seems to me that 
it would be best not to consider this an error.

What currently happens in that setMethod issues a warning, quite correctly. 
This warning produces an object 'last.warning'. Then R CMD check issues a 
WARNING that 'last.warning' is an undocumented code object.

Would it be a good idea to make R CMD check disregard the object 
'last.warning' when checking for undocumented code objects? If people 
agree, I could try to make a patch for the R CMD check code.

Gordon

platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386
os       mingw32
system   i386, mingw32
status   Patched
major    1
minor    7.0
year     2003
month    05
day      13
language R

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[Rd] R CMD check: is it error to setMethod for class not currently defined?
Gordon Smyth