From roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu  Wed Apr  2 03:14:53 2003
From: roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu (Roger Koenker)
Date: Wed Apr  2 10:10:04 2003
Subject: [Rd] setGeneric
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Luke Tierney wrote:

> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, John Chambers wrote:
> >
> > > I think this is a consequence of the extra context added to make methods
> > > work right with R lexical scoping, namespaces, etc.  Or a subtlety in
> > > R's definition of missing()?
> > >
> >
> > We need a bit more info transferred across from the generic and we
> > need to reset the environments of the promises for missing arguments.
> > I'll look into it.
>
> A workaround should be in place in R-devel now.
>

Thanks very much!  It looks like the problems we had are now resolved in the new
R-devel, and SparseM is back in business.

Roger

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[Rd] setGeneric
Roger Koenker