[Bioc-devel] Candidates for BiocGenerics

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Benilton Carvalho
<beniltoncarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing a few things in oligo and I wonder if it'd make sense to have
>
> boxplot/coef/image/ncol/residuals
>
> defined in BiocGenerics?
>
> If it's only me using them, I'm happy to have everything in oligo.
>
> Thoughts?

It seems that if someone is proposing a generic for functionality
already in base R, that generic is by definition a good candidate for
inclusion in BiocGenerics.  Are there downsides to having this be a
criterion for inclusion?

Sean