[Bioc-devel] Candidates for BiocGenerics

[Benilton Carvalho]

Thank you very much Herve! cheers, b

2012/3/1 Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org>:
> Hi Benilton, Sean,
>
>
> On 03/01/2012 08:18 AM, Sean Davis wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> I agree.
>
>
>> Are there downsides to having this be a
>> criterion for inclusion?
>
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> I'll add boxplot, coef, image, ncol and residuals to BiocGenerics today.
> I'll also add nrow, NROW, NCOL and dim, which are all interconnected
> with ncol.
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
>
>>
>> Sean
>>
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