On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 21:11, Lenth, Russell V <russell-le...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > > Thanks Iñaki, > > However... > > > 1) renaming those methods (e.g., recover_data_foo, because as soon as > there is a something.foo > > in your namespace, it will be dispatched regardless of whether you > register it or not) > > If I do that, then emmeans won't support foo objects until foopkg offers the > methods. My goal is to encourage package developers to replace my existing > methods but to support them until that is done.
A method doesn't need to be named something.foo to register it for foo objects. You can register any function name as a method for any class and any generic, thus avoiding the automatic dispatch on these special names *.foo. What I'm suggesting is that, in .onLoad, if getS3method returns something for recover_data and class foo, then that's fine. If not, you can register you recover_data_foo. Iñaki ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
