Hi,
Strange things happen. Here is a simple example:
> setClass("A", contains="integer")
> setMethod("as.matrix", "A", function(x, ...) t(callNextMethod()))
Creating a generic function for ‘as.matrix’ from package ‘base’ in
the global environment
[1] "as.matrix"
> a <- new("A", 1:3)
FWIW, here is my sessionInfo:
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2012-07-25 r59963)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8L
On Aug 4, 2012, at 01:24 , Hervé Pagès wrote:
> BTW, it's funny that the VERSION file in the R source tree says:
>
> hpages@latitude:~/src/R-2.16.r59963$ cat VERSION
> 2.16.0 Under development (unstable)
> ^^
What's funny about that? We no longer display the number on startup and at some
