[Bioc-devel] Nasty function collision

[James W. MacDonald]

Seth Falcon wrote:

> Code that does the optional generic definition really needs to go away
> at this point (I know it was needed at some point, so I'm not trying
> to point a finger or anything).  To be specific, I'm referring to any
> code that does something along the lines of:
> 
>     if (!isGeneric("foo"))
>        setGeneric("foo") ...

I tried removing the if(!isGeneric("foo")) lines from annaffy and 
re-installed, and it didn't make a difference. However, re-setting the 
method as Colin suggested:

setMethod("getURL", "ANY", function(object) {
     RCurl::getURL(object)
})

did work, do it appears to me that the real cause of the collision is 
this particular method rather than co-opting an existing generic.

Best,

Jim





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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
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7410 CCGC
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