Hi Oscar,
I don't think this is such a good idea, for a few reasons.
First, `setMethod` defines an S4 method, so both an S3 method (from stats) and
an S4 method (from your package) will be defined. This seems to work, but could
give unexpected results and is confusing for anyone trying to under
Hi Joris,
thank you for your reply.
I re-read the CRAN policy after I saw your reply and you are right,
I do not need permission for this.
About the search PATH. unifed will always be attached after stats,
so I think the unifed function would always be found before the one in
stats (
Hi,
technically you don't need permission for this. You only need permission if
you tamper with the namespace of the stats package, which you don't. You
just hide a function from another package, which is rather common actually
(eg dplyr::lag() and stats::lag() ).
Then again, I'm not sure this wi
Hello,
I created a package for working with a new probability
distribution called unifed. The source code can be found at
https://gitlab.com/oquijano/unifed .
This distribution is suitable for GLMs. I have included a a
function called unifed in the package that returns a family that can
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