[Rd] setGeneric

[Roger Koenker]

I'm still having difficulties with methods...is the following behavior expected?
(This is without loading any libraries)

R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2003-03-31)


> ls()
character(0)
>
> diag(2)
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    0
[2,]    0    1
> setGeneric("diag")
[1] "diag"
> diag(2)
Error in diag(2) : Object "n" not found
>

Seems to be a perverse consequence of some slightly fancy use of lazy evaluation....


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