Dear Joris,
in my eyes, this is clearly a Q that should be asked on R-devel,
not R-package-devel ...
>>>>> Joris Meys
>>>>> on Thu, 24 May 2018 14:17:07 +0200 writes:
> Dear all, per the manual, one should create and register
> both the S3 and a S4 method if one needs a method for an
> S4 class for a function using S3 dispatching. This is
> cumbersome, and not very optimal.
> I was wondering if there's a better way to do
> this. Currently I recreate a generic in my package and
> create a default method that sends all the other classes
> to the S3 generic, eg:
> setGeneric("predict") setMethod("predict", "ANY",
> stats::predict)
> I'm not sure if this hasn't any adverse consequences, as
> it is not the recommended approach
> It would be great if these generics could be made
> available through stats4. If this would be the prefered
> route, I volunteer to create the patch for that.
> Any thoughts? Cheers Joris
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