[Rd] truncate

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> I see in the devel snapshot there is a new generic method
>
> > truncate
> function (con, ...)
> UseMethod("truncate")
>
> which conflicts with a generic method in one of my packages:
>
> > truncate
> function (x, start = NULL, end = NULL)
> {
>     UseMethod("truncate")
> }
>
> I don't think there is a problem, but there used to be a recommendation to use the
> same name for the first argument in generic and specific methods. Is that still
> important?

It is desirable in R, important in S, essential in S-PLUS 6.0.

There is already a truncate function in Rstreams, BTW, which this
is intended to supersede.  That (and that in R-devel) do mean the same as
the system call truncate(3c), which I guess yours does not.

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