From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Sep 16 21:18:04 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Sep 16 21:17:34 2003
Subject: [Rd] couldn't find function "setClass"
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0309161410080.15392-100000@santiam.dfci.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309162016190.2134-100000@gannet.stats>

It's not been a valid assumption ever (or as long as I can recall).
The only thing you can assume in base.  We try to be careful in the R 
tarball, but things slip past.

BDR

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> > Did you make sure that you have
> > require(methods)
> > early in your R sources for the package?
> 
> No, and that was exactly the problem (although specifically I put the
> 'require(methods)' into the R_PROFILE.R file).  I was under the impression
> that methods was always loaded by default when R started up (and thus,
> many of the BioC packages no longer have an explicit 'require(methods)'
> call).  As I said, this is something relatively recent in R-devel, and
> wasn't necessary just a week ago ... I'm assuming it was an intended
> change tho. :)
> 
> Thanks
> -J
> 
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[Rd] couldn't find function "setClass"
Prof Brian Ripley