Sometimes its useful to call a method on a class other than the method indicated by the suffix of the method name and in that case one needs to call the method directly rather than via the generic.
For an example, see: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/01/9383.html On 3/16/07, Henric Nilsson (Public) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've noted that not all `predict' methods are hidden in the namespace: > > > methods("predict") > [1] predict.ar* predict.Arima* > [3] predict.arima0* predict.glm > [5] predict.HoltWinters* predict.lm > [7] predict.loess* predict.mlm > [9] predict.nls* predict.poly > [11] predict.ppr* predict.prcomp* > [13] predict.princomp* predict.smooth.spline* > [15] predict.smooth.spline.fit* predict.StructTS* > > Non-visible functions are asterisked > > I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but I haven't been able to > figure it out. Please enlighten me. > > Thanks! > > > Henric > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
