From jmc at research.bell-labs.com  Tue Sep 16 17:54:31 2003
From: jmc at research.bell-labs.com (John Chambers)
Date: Tue Sep 16 22:55:07 2003
Subject: [Rd] getGenerics is wrong in 1.8.0 alpha (PR#4184)
References: <200309161141.h8GBfaJH019092@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <3F677887.4C027496@research.bell-labs.com>

Should now be consistent.

One problem was that the base namespace, unlike other namespaces, does
not have a .packageName object.  I left this alone for now, and
special-cased the base namespace in getPackageName().

John

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> I have mentioned this several times, and it is still incorrect.  So I am
> submitting a formal bug report.
> 
> In 1.7.1 in a vanilla session
> 
> > getGenerics(2)
> An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage":
> 
> Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops"  "Summary"
> From:   "base"  "base"    "base"    "base"  "base" "base" "base"
> 
> Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-" "coerce"  "coerce<-" "initialize" "loadMethod"
> From:   "methods"       "base"   "methods" "methods"  "methods"    "methods"
> 
> Object: "show"
> From:   "methods"
> 
> In 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-16)
> 
> > getGenerics(2)
> An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage":
> 
> Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops"  "Summary"
> From:   "base"  "base"    "base"    "base"  "base" "base" "base"
> 
> Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-"  "coerce"  "coerce<-" "initialize"
> From:   "methods"       "methods" "methods" "methods"  "methods"
> 
> Object: "loadMethod" "show"
> From:   "methods"    "methods"
> 
> body<- is incorrectly attributed to "methods", although it originates in
> base (whereas Compare, Complex and Math2 do not occur in base).
> 
> --
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[Rd] getGenerics is wrong in 1.8.0 alpha (PR#4184)
John Chambers