[Rd] Passing arguments to standardGeneric

Ali - saveez at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 22 20:31:23 CEST 2005


This could be quite trivial (or could be not): when passing a character 
string argument to standardGeneric, the argument is not passed properly:

>dummy <- function(str){
+ setGeneric(str, function(object, ...) standardGeneric(str))
+ }
>dummy("foo")
[1] "foo"
Warning message:
The body of the generic function for "foo" calls standardGeneric to dispatch 
on a different name ("str")! in: .recursiveCallTest(body, fname)
>

I don't know how this call test works but the test shouldn't fail in this 
case!



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