El mié., 4 jul. 2018 a las 22:47, Duncan Murdoch (<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>) escribió: > > On 04/07/2018 4:04 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > > <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > That shouldn't matter. That function was created in a local > > environment whose parent is <environment: namespace:huxtable> > > (probably by the huxtable:::make_setter_getters function, but I > > didn't check). > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > I would think it does matter. Methods are found on the search path, but > > the environment where the methods are defined is not on the search path. > > It's a child environment of the namespace, and hence cannot be reached > > from either the global environment or the namespace if I understood it > > correctly. > > > > The environment of a function is where it looks for objects, not where > it is stored. That method is stored in the huxtable namespace, and > exported from it. That's why > getFromNamespace("align.huxtable","huxtable") (or even > huxtable::align.huxtable) finds it. > > I don't know the source of the original error.
I don't know either. But obviously it has something to do with the function environment and how UseMethod looks for methods when they are exported from a namespace (I tested a similar "layout" in the global environment and the method is correctly found). So maybe this thread belongs to r-devel instead. Iñaki > > Duncan Murdoch > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
