From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Nov 21 10:16:44 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:16:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] contour as a generic function?
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr wrote:

> After "image" and "persp" would it be interesting to als have contour as a
> generic function?

Interesting if you (or anyone else) has a need for it.  We try not to
make functions generic until it is needed.

I presume you would want

contour <- function (x, ...) UseMethod("contour")

?

Brian

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[Rd] contour as a generic function?
Prof Brian Ripley