Dear all, I have defined a generic as.ff(x, ...) and a method as.ff.function(x, ...) which converts a standard R function x into a chunked version operating on large ff objects. Everything works fine, but when registering
S3method("as.ff",function) in NAMESPACE, the installation fails with some kind of parsing error: adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing NAMESPACE file and metadata Fehler in parse(nsFile) : Unerwartetes ')' bei 348: 349: S3method("as.ff",function) Calls: <Anonymous> -> parseNamespaceFile -> parse Ausf³hrung angehalten make[2]: *** [nmspace] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [pkg-ff] Error 2 *** Installation of ff failed *** Is this a bug? Any ideas? Best regards Jens P.S. with as.ff() we can do things like ffx <- as.ff(x) # as.ff.default() turns a standard R object into an ff object stored on disk as.ff(log)(ffx) # as.ff.function() turns 'log' into a function that we can call on ffx: taking the log of an almost arbitrarily large object > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 6.0 year 2007 month 10 day 03 svn rev 43063 language R version.string R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel