setAs() defines methods on the coerce() generic, so you could write
importMethodsFrom(pkg, coerce). However, as() searches the namespace
associated with class(from) for coerce() methods. As long as that
namespace hasn't selectively imported methods on coerce(), it should
end up using the global table and find the appropriate method.

It's best to just importFrom() a generic to get access to its global
table, or import() the entire package. So Hervé's suggestion of
import(methods) is the right way to go

Michael.

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:07 AM Bhagwat, Aditya
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear BioC compatriots,
>
> How does one import a setAs method (which is generally not exported)?
> I in particular need to import as(., DataFrame) and am a bit puzzled on how 
> to do this.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Aditya
>
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