From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Jun 28 06:51:43 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: package `methods' has persistent effects even if detached (PR#1715)
Message-ID: <200206280551.HAA06028@pubhealth.ku.dk>

This came from an error in reg-tests-1.R

> x <- as.data.frame(x=I("C"))[[1]]
> class(x)
[1] "AsIs"
> library(methods)
> detach("package:methods")
> search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv"    "package:ctest" "Autoloads"     "package:base"
> x <- as.data.frame(x=I("C"))[[1]]
> class(x)
[1] "AsIs"      "character"

My reading is that this should not happen.

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package `methods' has persistent effects even if detached (PR#1715)
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